Tuesday, December 20, 2011

How to run Topcoder Arena from Ubuntu

Somehow Topcoder Arena does not work in chrome or firefox browsers in Ubuntu 11.10.

This is what you can do instead:
(1) Download http://www.topcoder.com/contest/classes/ContestApplet.jar to your local directory.
(2) Run the following code in a terminal.
java -cp ContestApplet.jar com.topcoder.client.contestApplet.runner.generic www.topcoder.com 5001

This method works in openjdk as well.

Update: this seems no longer working for Java 7. The ultimate solution is to configure Ubuntu/Mac etc. to open .jnlp files with javaws, similar to the instructions in this post.
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12 comments:

  1. qiuqiyuanJanuary 20, 2012 at 2:54 AM

    Hi I used your method and ti worked.
    But I came across another problem that I cannot directly edit the file generated by topcoder plugins. There are written.

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  2. UnknownJanuary 31, 2012 at 9:48 PM

    You can also try this:
    http://mytechmemo.blogspot.com/2012/01/how-to-let-google-chrome-automatically.html

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  3. CoderApril 5, 2012 at 5:49 AM

    But I got the error FAILED TO ESTABLISH A CONNECTION TO THE SOCKET SERVER
    I don't know why

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  4. UnknownApril 5, 2012 at 8:33 AM

    Maybe try at a different time? I just checked and it works.

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  5. UnknownOctober 27, 2012 at 5:48 PM

    IT DOESN'T WORK ANYMORE

    NEW METHOD:

    Download the following files:

    http://www.topcoder.com/contest/classes/7.0/arena-client-7.0.0.jar
    http://www.topcoder.com/contest/classes/7.0/basic_type_serialization-1.0.1.jar
    http://www.topcoder.com/contest/classes/7.0/client-socket-SNAPSHOT.jar
    http://www.topcoder.com/contest/classes/7.0/concurrent-SNAPSHOT.jar
    http://www.topcoder.com/contest/classes/7.0/encoder-SNAPSHOT.jar
    http://www.topcoder.com/contest/classes/7.0/arena-shared-SNAPSHOT.jar
    http://www.topcoder.com/contest/classes/7.0/client-common-SNAPSHOT.jar
    http://www.topcoder.com/contest/classes/7.0/compeng-common-SNAPSHOT.jar
    http://www.topcoder.com/contest/classes/7.0/custom-serialization-SNAPSHOT.jar
    http://www.topcoder.com/contest/classes/7.0/http-tunnel-client-SNAPSHOT.jar
    http://www.topcoder.com/contest/classes/7.0/log4j-1.2.13.jar

    And then run the following command:


    java -cp "arena-client-7.0.0.jar:basic_type_serialization-1.0.1.jar:client-socket-SNAPSHOT.jar:concurrent-SNAPSHOT.jar:encoder-SNAPSHOT.jar:arena-shared-SNAPSHOT.jar:client-common-SNAPSHOT.jar:compeng-common-SNAPSHOT.jar:custom-serialization-SNAPSHOT.jar:http-tunnel-client-SNAPSHOT.jar:log4j-1.2.13.jar" com.topcoder.client.contestApplet.runner.generic www.topcoder.com 5001

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  6. AnonymousNovember 30, 2012 at 12:58 AM

    ^^ thanks for the above update

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  7. AnonymousDecember 12, 2012 at 12:23 PM

    it doesn't works when I try open promlem

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  8. AnonymousMay 7, 2013 at 7:53 PM

    thanks for the update. I am able to launch arena.

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  9. AnonymousJuly 20, 2013 at 10:15 PM

    I get a 404 when I try to download http://www.topcoder.com/contest/classes/7.0/arena-client-7.0.0.jar

    Online suggestions include using the more recent http://www.topcoder.com/contest/classes/7.0/arena-client-7.0.2.jar, but this doesn't work either.

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  10. AnonymousJuly 21, 2013 at 8:13 AM

    Please configure Ubuntu to open .jnlp files using javaws. This will always work even if TopCoder upgrades their plugin. Please see "Update" above for more details.

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  11. sturmerApril 27, 2014 at 12:23 PM

    Hi, just to keep this post fresh, I have tried to use the method you explain in the post and it works (Ubuntu 13.10, Java 7). Using javaws ContestAppletProd.jnlp also works.

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  12. AnonymousAugust 30, 2014 at 5:37 PM

    How to add proxy authentication in the method given.

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