davmail not starting

So, attempting to install davmail on pretty much a new install - ran the deb, tried to run it, didn't open but appeared to be running. Did have java installed (only have openjdk installed, unlike my other install where sunjava causes the problems with davmail), and when I ran it from the command line I get:

Exception in thread "SWT" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Could not load SWT library.

Which led me to this bug report (under DavMail, even though it's a openjdk bug?), which solved it with:

sudo apt-get install libswt-cairo-gtk-3-jni

which worked a treat.

 

davmail crashing on startup

so, I finally updated davmail (4.1.0-2042 ) after it asking me to for literally years. But when it started up startup, it immediately crashed. At the same time, I got an error relating to the jre. A quick google got me to some information about how sometimes the open jdk is better than the sun java. So I checked which one I was running with:

sudo update-alternatives --config java

 which gives me:

There are 3 choices for the alternative java (providing /usr/bin/java).

  Selection    Path                                            Priority   Status

------------------------------------------------------------

  0            /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java   1061      auto mode

  *1            /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java             63        manual mode

 2            /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java   1051      manual mode

Press enter to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number:

I switched to  [2], and now it runs!