Question

I am a Linux Ubuntu user.
I tried downloading and installing this interesting Kinetic Typography tool:

http://johnnylee.net/kt/dist/files/

It’s quite old (2002) and poorly documented.

When I try to compile and run, I get the error message:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: KTEngine/java

Any clues?

Answer 1

It looks like you’re trying to run it with:

java KTEngine.java

That’s not how you run a Java program. You say you’ve compiled it, but you haven’t said how you’ve done so…

Note that having downloaded the code, KTEngine doesn’t have a main method either, so that’s not going to work anyway.

It looks like it’s just a library, so you’d need to use it within your own application, rather than it being an application in itself.