OK, guys. The stand-alone portable dude did it. It works perfectly using that. Thank you soooo much! I'll just run it this way. If anyone else reads this, the permissions aren't set for the java executeables so you'll have to set it yourself or it won't run.

Also, I ran it under VirtualBox with ...

Ahhh, thanks for the replies, both of you. OK, I did see that version out there. I think I'll try that first and see if that fixes it. If it does, then I'll install Oracle 6/7 as hansmex suggests.

I am a C/C++ 3D Game developer, just for background info. I need to design an addition to my daughter's house and I run Ubuntu 14.04. I had Sweet Home installed from the Ubuntu package and it was working just fine, but I wanted the latest software and downloaded 5.0. Well, it doesn't work. I think ...