[kepler-dev] test installers

[Jing Tao]

Hi, David:

Sure, I can take a look.

Cheers,

Jing

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

On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, David Welker wrote:

> Hi Jing,
>
> I was wondering whether you could have a quick look at the Linux installation 
> documentation section in the User Manual Chapter 2.0 and confirm that the 
> instructions are correct. I do not have access to a Linux machine. If you 
> can't do it, that is okay, I will hunt down someone else! =)
>
> Thanks!
>
> -David
>
>
> On Mar 22, 2010, at 4:55 PM, Jing Tao wrote:
>
>> 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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