[kepler-dev] Kepler Alpha2 Installer Problems

[Dan Higgins]

Matt,
    GARP workflow data has already been removed from the installer, so 
it has nn effect on the size. Note that the Ptolemey 4.01 Installer is 
78MB which indicates that the Kepler addititions are only increasing the 
size slightly. I think most of the size is from documentation, although 
there is also quite a collection of zip files there.

Dan

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Matt Jones wrote:

> Well, I think we need to work on the size of the installer.  We should 
> remove the GARP test data (get it from EcoGrid instead) and trim down 
> the installer as much as possible.  If we can make the installer 
> itself much smaller then machines with less memory would be able to 
> better handle it.  I think we do need a traditional installer, as the 
> zip/batch file approach is simply too unconventional for our target 
> audience.
>
> Matt
>
> Dan Higgins wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>>    Mark Schildhauer recently reported problems with the Kepler Alpha2 
>> installers for Windows platforms. On a machine with 256MB of RAM and 
>> 1-2GB of disk space, he received messages of 'not enough space 
>> available' when running the installers.
>>
>>    Installer tests that I (and others) have done have worked 
>> successfully, but they were done on Windows machines with at least 
>> 10GB of free disk space and 512MB of RAM. Has anyone else experienced 
>> difficulties with the installers (as downloaded from the Kepler 
>> website)?
>>
>>    An alternative which worked for Mark is to use the zip file that 
>> is listed as a Linux installer on the Kepler distribution page. 
>> Expanding this zip file creates a directory image of Kepler that 
>> really is platform independent. Running 'kepler.bat' will start 
>> Kepler on a Windows machine, while running 'kepler.sh' will launch it 
>> on Linux. {This assumes that Java is already installed on your system.)
>>
>>    Given the large size of the kepler distribution and problems with 
>> installers, perhaps we should consider just distributing zipped 
>> images and ask that user install Java separately?
>>
>> Dan
>>
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