Syntevo SmartGit/Hg 6.0.1 not working on Ubuntu 12.04

Question

I recently installed the new SmartGit client for Ubuntu using the .deb package offered on their site. However, upon attempting to run SmartGit nothing happened. So then I downloaded the .tar.gz package also on their site, unpacked it and attempted to run SmartGit but to no avail. There are no error messages displayed at all, even when I run the .sh file in the terminal. SmartGit 5 runs just fine and I have the jre correctly installed so I'm not sure what's causing SmartGit 6.0.1 to not work. Any help?

Answer 1

I finally found an error message by messing with the SMARTGIT_JAVA_HOME variable and running it in the terminal. Apparently, I had a major.minor mismatch (version mismatch) with java jre's. So I updated my jre, changed the SMARTGIT_JAVA_HOME variable accordingly and everything works fine now.