Running VERDI within Eclipse on Ubuntu

Tried running the verdi.launch under verdi_bootstrap
Gave an error: Failure reading splash.jpg

Note: I don't know how to get around this error without installing a version of verdi on the machine that has already been built.
Downloaded VERDI 1.5 using
wget ftp://ftp.unc.edu/pub/cmas/SOFTWARE/VIS/VERDI/1.5/VERDI_1.5_linux32_20141201.tar.gz

Then obtained an exception when trying to run the VERDI 1.5 version from the command line. Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundERror: org/apache/log4j/Priority

Good news is by changing the VERDI_HOME environment variable in Eclipse for the verdi_launch script under bootstrap, is that VERDI ran on the machine within eclipse!! Under VERDI_Bootstrap, right click on one of the scripts, ie. verdi_script(1).launch then select Run As> Run Configurations Then select the Enfironment Tab and change the VERDI_HOME and VERDI_User

Did get a few java.lang.NoClssDefFoundError: sun/dc/path/PathException at anl.verdi.gui.PGridNode.paint (PGridNode.java: 203) edu.umd.cs.piccolo.PNode.fullPaint (Unknown Source)

Was able to create a Fast Tile plot and an Areal Interpolation Plot.

Jo Ellen's VERDI_1.6_V3 code is on github as a branch called Shapefiles. I think this version has all of the code that read the bin files removed.