Thanx to Mark’s encouragements, I tried to run Jmol and JChemPaint with jamvm.

Jmol fails with an NullPointerException, but JChemPaint runs! And note that this was not even running with the latest of the latest; just recent packages from Kubuntu! Yes, there are some glitches, but I’m happy nevertheless!

jchempaint  java  jmol  linux