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I upgraded my Intellistation A Pro (AMD64) from Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 5 and to my horror my copy of JBuilder X would not install. When I tried to run the installer I just got a segmentation fault. I tried this on another identical machine and got the same result.

As I develop java GUI’s this is a very important tool due to it’s built in GUI builder and so I searched the web for quite some time looking for an answer. I drew a blank and realised there seemed to be no solution as yet. I therefore downloaded the 30 day trial of JBuilder 2006 thinking that this must work. Alas no. This time the installer ran and then returned silently without actually doing anything. There is however a fix for this one.

Firstly temporarily rename /usr/bin/strings to /usr/bin/strings.bak and then run the installer with the command

LAX_DEBUG=true PATH_TO_INSTALL_FILES/Disk1/InstData/Linux/VM/install.bin

and all works fine.

Remember to rename /usr/bin/strings.bak back to /usr/bin/strings afterwards.