Can't run version >1.4.1 on Linux Mint

This is very weird (or I'm very stupid in a way I can't yet see).

Iǘe been running Serviio on a pc running Linux Mint for over 3 years. Mint has gone from 13 to 14, 16, and now a clean install of 17.2. Seviio went back to 1.1 with upgrades bringing it to 1.4.1.

And there begins my problem. Whenever I tried to install a later Serviio version (1.4.1.2, 1.5, 1.5.2) and I try to run the serviio.sh file (and then the serviio-console.sh nothing happens). No action, no process shows in System Monitor. I then go into the Servio 1.4.1 folder, double-click on serviio.sh there and the server starts running, the 1.4.1 Serviio console starts normally (or gives the error "server not running" if I try to run it before the serviio.sh command). I've looked at the file properties and permissions for the two different version files and they are the same.

Please help.

Thank you,

Nikolas

[zip]

perhaps there is no java 8 installed

THANK you zip, you are right!

I'll write what I did next to fix this just in case it can help some other newbie who stumbles upon the same problem.


To begin with, I typed "java -version" in Terminal and got

" java version "1.7.0_79"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.5.6) (7u79-2.5.6-0ubuntu1.14.04.1)"


By Googling 'get Java8 on Mint 17' (and one failed attempt later in trying to follow Oracle Javaś instructions) I came upon the Serviio wiki (duh, I know), at http://wiki.serviio.org/doku.php?id=how ... all:ubuntu

After I entered the following commands in a Terminal window

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

and accepting to Continue when asked, I typed "java -version" in Terminal and got

java version "1.8.0_66"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_66-b17)


Now Serviio Server starts and the console loads!!