Geogebra from apt repository silently dies on ubuntu 18.04 [closed]

Today I ran

sudo apt install geogebra geogebra-gnome

on a stock ubuntu 18.04. Running the geogebra either through the gnome launcher or the terminal brings up the splash screen then it silently terminates.

Here is what it looks like running it in the terminal:

$ geogebra
GeoGebra 4.0.34.0 (Debian version 4.0.34.0+dfsg1-4) 22 June 2012 Java 10.0.1
*** Message from [geogebra.main.Application.setUpLogging]
    /tmp/GeoGebraLog_qrhdpnnfig.txt

Here's the log file mentioned from the terminal

Jun 05, 2018 7:52:18 AM  
STDOUT:   current views:

Jun 05, 2018 7:52:19 AM  
STDOUT: geogebra.euclidian.EuclidianView[,0,0,0x0,invalid,alignmentX=0.0,alignmentY=0.0,border=,flags=9,maximumSize=,minimumSize=java.awt.Dimension[width=20,height=20],preferredSize=]

Jun 05, 2018 7:52:19 AM  
STDERR: XXXXXXXXX Number of registered views = 1
Jun 05, 2018 7:52:19 AM  
STDOUT: class geogebra.euclidian.EuclidianView
Jun 05, 2018 7:52:20 AM  
STDERR: *** Message from [geogebra.gui.view.algebra.AlgebraView.<init>]
Jun 05, 2018 7:52:20 AM  
STDERR:     
Jun 05, 2018 7:52:20 AM  
STDERR: XXX creating Algebra View XXX
Jun 05, 2018 7:52:20 AM  
STDOUT:   current views:

Jun 05, 2018 7:52:20 AM  
STDOUT: geogebra.euclidian.EuclidianView[,0,0,0x0,invalid,alignmentX=0.0,alignmentY=0.0,border=,flags=9,maximumSize=,minimumSize=java.awt.Dimension[width=20,height=20],preferredSize=java.awt.Dimension[width=640,height=480]]

Jun 05, 2018 7:52:20 AM  
STDOUT: geogebra.gui.view.algebra.AlgebraView[,0,0,0x0,invalid,alignmentX=0.0,alignmentY=0.0,border=javax.swing.border.EmptyBorder@512d92b,flags=16777576,maximumSize=,minimumSize=,preferredSize=,editable=true,invokesStopCellEditing=true,largeModel=true,rootVisible=false,rowHeight=-1,scrollsOnExpand=true,showsRootHandles=false,toggleClickCount=1,visibleRowCount=20]

Jun 05, 2018 7:52:20 AM  
STDERR: XXXXXXXXX Number of registered views = 2
Jun 05, 2018 7:52:20 AM  
STDOUT: class geogebra.euclidian.EuclidianView
Jun 05, 2018 7:52:20 AM  
STDOUT: class geogebra.gui.view.algebra.AlgebraView
Jun 05, 2018 7:52:20 AM  
STDOUT: *** Message from [geogebra.main.GeoGebraPreferences.loadPrefsSystem]
Jun 05, 2018 7:52:20 AM  
STDOUT:     
Jun 05, 2018 7:52:20 AM  
STDOUT: system preference /geogebra does not exist
Jun 05, 2018 7:52:20 AM  
STDOUT: *** Message from [geogebra.main.GeoGebraPreferences.loadVersionCheckAllow]
Jun 05, 2018 7:52:20 AM  
STDOUT:     
Jun 05, 2018 7:52:20 AM  
STDOUT: no ggbPrefsSystem : systemAllows = true
Jun 05, 2018 7:52:20 AM  
STDOUT: *** Message from [geogebra.main.Application.setVersionCheckAllowed]
Jun 05, 2018 7:52:20 AM  
STDOUT:     
Jun 05, 2018 7:52:20 AM  
STDOUT: versionCheckAllowed = true
Jun 05, 2018 7:52:20 AM  
STDERR: java.lang.ClassCastException: java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader cannot be cast to java.base/java.net.URLClassLoader
Jun 05, 2018 7:52:20 AM  
STDERR:     at geogebra.plugin.ClassPathManipulator.addURL(ClassPathManipulator.java:68)
Jun 05, 2018 7:52:20 AM  
STDERR:     at geogebra.plugin.PluginManager.<init>(PluginManager.java:80)
Jun 05, 2018 7:52:20 AM  
STDERR:     at geogebra.main.Application.getPluginManager(Application.java:5048)
Jun 05, 2018 7:52:20 AM  
STDERR:     at geogebra.main.Application.<init>(Application.java:612)
Jun 05, 2018 7:52:20 AM  
STDERR:     at geogebra.main.Application.<init>(Application.java:467)
Jun 05, 2018 7:52:20 AM  
STDERR:     at geogebra.gui.app.GeoGebraFrame.createApplication(GeoGebraFrame.java:288)
Jun 05, 2018 7:52:20 AM  
STDERR:     at geogebra.gui.app.GeoGebraFrame.createNewWindow(GeoGebraFrame.java:311)
Jun 05, 2018 7:52:20 AM  
STDERR:     at geogebra.gui.app.GeoGebraFrame.createNewWindow(GeoGebraFrame.java:276)
Jun 05, 2018 7:52:20 AM  
STDERR:     at geogebra.gui.app.GeoGebraFrame.init(GeoGebraFrame.java:242)
Jun 05, 2018 7:52:20 AM  
STDERR:     at geogebra.gui.app.GeoGebraFrame.main(GeoGebraFrame.java:196)
Jun 05, 2018 7:52:20 AM  
STDERR:     at geogebra.GeoGebra.startGeoGebra(GeoGebra.java:103)
Jun 05, 2018 7:52:20 AM  
STDERR:     at geogebra.GeoGebra.main(GeoGebra.java:88)

I've run ps ax grepping for java or geogebra and nothing seems to be running. Any ideas?

Solution 1:

Since I realized that the apt repo version of geogebra is ancient I downloaded the latest version from https://wiki.geogebra.org/en/Reference:GeoGebra_Installation

Since 18.04 is natively 64 bit (at least my version). I downloaded:

geogebra-classic_6.0.471.0-201805301433_amd64.deb

Then I removed the apt installation

sudo apt remove geogebra geogebra-gnome
sudo apt autoremove

Then I installed gdebi to help with the dependencies of the foriegn .deb

sudo apt install gdebi-core

And installed using gdebi

sudo gdebi geogebra-classic_6.0.471.0-201805301433_amd64.deb

It runs cleanly though the command line is now geogebra-classic.