[kepler-dev] Kepler Alpha2 Installer Problems

[Dan Higgins]

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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