[kepler-dev] test installers

[Jing Tao]

Hi, Chad:

I installed the kepler on the following OSes:

Windows xp (Virtual Box)
Windows vista (Virtual Box)
Windows 7 (Virtual Box)
Ubuntu 8.04
Mac OS X 10.5.8

They worked very good except some glitches. Thank you!

1. On both vista and 7, kepler couldn't be installed in Program Files 
folder. I had to choose the home directory as the installation location. 
Morpho installer had this same issue and was fixed. Here is the bug:
http://bugzilla.ecoinformatics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4677

2. Kepler icons on both Desktop and Program Menu just show a blank page. 
This happened on all windows. But I didn't test on mac and linux.

3. IE automatically changes the win jar file to a zip file during the 
downloading. So I couldn't just do a double-click the zip file to launch 
the installer on windows. Is it possible to create an exe installer?

4. Is there any special reason why we need two separate files for 32-bit 
and 64-bit machines on windows? I know Morpho can just have one jar file 
(or exe file) for the both machines.

Hope this is helpful.

Thanks,

Jing



Jing Tao
National Center for Ecological
Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)
735 State St. Suite 204
Santa Barbara, CA 93101

On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, Chad Berkley wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've uploaded some test 2.0.0 installers here:
> http://dist.kepler-project.org/dist/Kepler-2.0.0/pre-release-installers/
>
> Please give them a try at your leisure and let me know if you see any 
> problems.
>
> thanks,
> chad
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