Exception on startup

[arj@…]

This happens when attempting to run the version of josm currently in the Ubuntu universe repositories. apt-cache states that the version is 0.0.0.20080330-1 (/var/lib/apt/lists/no.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_hardy_universe_binary-i386_Packages) (/var/lib/dpkg/status).

arj@gavagai:~$ java --version
java version "1.5.0"
gij (GNU libgcj) version 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu6)

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arj@gavagai:~$ josm
Using /usr/bin/gij-4.1 to execute josm.
Exception in thread "main" java.awt.AWTError: Cannot load AWT toolkit: gnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.GtkToolkit

at java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit(libgcj.so.71)
at javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicLookAndFeel.initialize(libgcj.so.71)
at javax.swing.UIManager.setLookAndFeel(libgcj.so.71)
at javax.swing.UIManager.<clinit>(libgcj.so.71)
at java.lang.Class.initializeClass(libgcj.so.71)
at javax.swing.UIManager.getUI(libgcj.so.71)
at javax.swing.JLabel.updateUI(libgcj.so.71)
at javax.swing.JLabel.<init>(libgcj.so.71)
at javax.swing.JLabel.<init>(libgcj.so.71)
at javax.swing.DefaultListCellRenderer.<init>(libgcj.so.71)
at javax.swing.JList.init(libgcj.so.71)
at javax.swing.JList.<init>(libgcj.so.71)
at org.openstreetmap.josm.gui.preferences.ToolbarPreferences.<init>(ToolbarPreferences.java:93)
at org.openstreetmap.josm.Main.<clinit>(Main.java:114)
at java.lang.Class.initializeClass(libgcj.so.71)
at java.lang.Class.initializeClass(libgcj.so.71)

Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: libgtkpeer: libgtkpeer.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

at java.lang.Runtime._load(libgcj.so.71)
at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary(libgcj.so.71)
at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(libgcj.so.71)
at gnu.java.awt.peer.gtk.GtkToolkit.<clinit>(libgcj.so.71)
at java.lang.Class.initializeClass(libgcj.so.71)
at java.lang.Class.forName(libgcj.so.71)
at java.awt.Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit(libgcj.so.71)
...15 more

[anonymous]

Better report this bug in the ubuntu bugtracker. This is some incompatibility in the way josm is started and not in josm itself.