[kepler-dev] Kepler Alpha2 Installer Problems

[Christopher Brooks]

BTW - about the Ptolemy 4.0.1 installer size,
much of the size is the source files and the javadocs.

The source jar file is 21Mb
The codeDoc jar file is 10Mb
The 3 volumes of the user guide total 8.9Mb
The JRE (which includes Java 3D, Java Communications API and others) is 23.6Mb

It is possible to create a smaller installer, but the problem with
smaller installers is that it increases the amount of testing I need
to do.  Some time soon, I'm hoping to build standalone installers for
HyVisual (Hybrid systems modeler) and VisualSense (Sensor networking
modeller) that would be much smaller.  It might also be worth building
a Ptiny installer.

With regard to the error message
Locally, we are using InstallAnywhere 6.0.
What installer are you using?
With InstallAnywhere, one can debug the installer by holding down the
Control key immediately after starting the installer, see:

http://www.zerog.com/iamanual/usermanual_ia6/en/WebHelp/to_translator/common_solutions/troubleshooting_installers.htm

I've seen errors from some older installers when run on machines with
more than 2 Gig free.  Are we sure that the Kepler installer really
requires 1-2 gig?  Seems like an installer bug.

-Christopher


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    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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