I'm a huge fan of jEdit, and quite dependent on it for getting work done every day. I can't get my install to work any longer, and after hours and hours of work on it yesterday it still doesn't work. I'm desperate (there really is no substitute for jEdit - that I can find, anyway).

I'm working on Kubuntu Linux (ver. 7.10) - it's about my 4th day on Linux, coming from WnXP, so there are many things I don't yet know.

My install failed yesterday after an edit of the fonts in the text and interface areas, in Global Options. The launch would start, then crash. With help from someone in a Kubutu forum, I uninstalled my jEdit, and reinstalled. I did this multiple times. It still doesn't work. It crashes shortly after the splash screen appears. How far it gets into the launch seems to vary each time. Each time it crashes, it leaves a java instance behind, visible my localhost running processes list.

HOW can I get a successful install at this point? The install module I've been using is jedit_4.3pre12_all.deb

I would be so grateful for some assistant with this problem.