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This is a quick update to my Watch JavaFX SDK Run---On Linux post from 121 days ago.

With the preview release, we got an easy pass because zip file versions of the SDK was available from the download site. For the now online JavaFX 1.0, only the Windows installer and the Mac OS X disk image (*.dmg) versions are available.

Fortunately, Linux can deal with Mac dmg files quite easily. Here's what I tried on my Ubuntu 8.10 amd64 box:

1. Download The Mac OS X version of JavaFX SDK 1.0 from JavaFX Downloads for Mac and Windows page
2. Run bunzip2 to decompress the downloaded javafx_sdk-1_0-macosx-universal.dmg
3. Mount the result at a directory. The directory will contain many levels of subdirectries and files
4. Unarchive on of the files with cpio to get a javafx-sdk1.0 directory

Here's a transcript of my terminal session:

[weiqi@gao:~] $ file javafx_sdk-1_0-macosx-universal.dmg 
javafx_sdk-1_0-macosx-universal.dmg: bzip2 compressed data, block size = 100k
[weiqi@gao:~] $ bunzip2 javafx_sdk-1_0-macosx-universal.dmg
bunzip2: Can't guess original name for javafx_sdk-1_0-macosx-universal.dmg -- using javafx_sdk-1_0-macosx-universal.dmg.out

bunzip2: javafx_sdk-1_0-macosx-universal.dmg: trailing garbage after EOF ignored
[weiqi@gao:~] $ mkdir mount-point
[weiqi@gao:~] $ sudo mount -o loop -t hfsplus javafx_sdk-1_0-macosx-universal.dmg.out mount-point
[sudo] password for weiqi: 
[weiqi@gao:~] $ mkdir javafx-sdk1.0
[weiqi@gao:~/javafx-sdk1.0] $ cd javafx-sdk1.0/
[weiqi@gao:~/javafx-sdk1.0] $ gunzip -c ../mount-point/javafx_sdk-1_0.mpkg/Contents/Packages/javafxsdk.pkg/Contents/Archive.pax.gz | cpio -i
65687 blocks
[weiqi@gao:~/javafx-sdk1.0] $ ls
bin             docs  LICENSE.txt  README.html  servicetag  THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME.txt
COPYRIGHT.html  lib   profiles     samples      src.zip     timestamp

A little involved, but we got our javafx-sdk1.0 directory. Copy it to the appropriate place like /opt or wherever you install software packages, add the javafx-sdk1.0/bin directory to your $PATH, and you are in business.

As usual, all the pure Java stuff should work.

I'll let you know what I can do when I play a little bit more with it.