Thinkorswim Java Issue

[Iwanttolinux]

Is anyone here familiar with Thinkorswim and the java oracle Java issue upon installation? I am a extreme novice with Linux. Running KDE Plasma here.

I can no longer find forum posts from other sites where they talked indepth regarding this issue. However, what I do remember is that Thinkorswim has updated to a new java? Or something along those lines.

My issue is that I am entirely new to Linux and very unsure as to how to update my system to this new oracle java version.

I apologize if this is vague, I am reaching here. Hoping that someone out there will be familiar with this issue.

[Leebut]

Several months ago, I installed Think or Swim (ToS) using the thinkorswim_installer.sh file provided by TD Ameritrade. There was an issue for a short time with Java warnings, but that was eventually patched with an update via the ToS updater during the log in phase. I don’t remember whether or not I installed any new Java versions. Here’s what I have installed regarding runtime environments:

And common files:

[Iwanttolinux]

Ok I ensured that I had those all installed. But still I have no success.

The ToS directory located within Home, has a “uninstall” konsole looking file within it. When I double click this, the uninstaller for ToS runs. However in the process of uninstalling I actually got this error:

java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/devexperts/jnlp/installerCallback: Unsupported major.minor version 52.0

Also when I run the “launcher.jar” I receive this error:

“Zulu OpenJDK 11.0.10 or later is required to run application. Please manually update java and ensure it is the first java available in your system path”

[Iwanttolinux]

Would anyone have any idea why I cant even run the Uninstaller?

[Iwanttolinux]

As I was discussing in another thread > Thinkorswim Java Issue - #2 by leebut

I was attempting to install TD Ameritrades trading platform, Thinkorswim (TOS) However I seemed to run into a Java update issue which prevented me from installing (for the time being)

I want to simply uninstall TOS, and try a fresh install (after following the advice from the other thread) But the issues is that running the TOS uninstaller, I am then greeted with a error notification regarding a unsupptedClassVersionError issue.

So can I get around this by force uninstalling through the konsole some how?

[linux-aarhus]

When the app is created using Java - it is most likely running as a set of jar-files and installation is usually not necessary as jar files are self-contained and only requires a corresponding jdk.

@Iwanttolinux

unsupptedClassVersionError issue.

You can have several versions of JDK installed - my initial guess is that your app needs an earlier version like JDK 11.

sudo pacman -Syu jdk11-openjdk

You can see your installed environments

 archlinux-java status

You can then set which one is active e.g. v11

sudo archlinux-java set java-11-openjdk

If the app in question requires an even older Java version then Java 7 and Java 8 is also available.

[Iwanttolinux]

I ran

archlinux-java status

And this is the result:

Available Java environments:
java-11-openjdk
java-15-openjdk
java-7-openjdk/jre (default)
java-8-openjdk/jre
zulu-10
zulu-16

Do you think I should just go ahead and begin testing with all my available java versions?

[Iwanttolinux]

Update:

I got TOS working by using

sudo archlinux-java set java-11-openjdk

I think I needed Java-11 set as my current Java environment.

[Leebut]

Java 8 is default on my PC, so I guess Java 7 was too old.

Available Java environments:
  java-11-openjdk
  java-8-openjdk (default)

Glad you got it working.

[Leebut]

Thanks for those commands.