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I uninstalled my previous version (3.6.4) as well ad deleted the Eclipse M4 eclipse directory.
I then installed Eclipse M6. When I went to install the MyEclipse 3.7R2 the installed kept prompting me to choose a different directory for the installer to use. Whichever directory I choose it asked me to choose a new one.
I also tried to reboot (Windows XP) with no luck.
Any ideas?
bbalmer,
The installer asks for 2 directories, 1 for the location of Eclipse and 1 where you want MyEclipse to live. Are you sure that you are selecting the 2nd one? It might be possible that its actually asking you for the location of Eclipse and you keep pointing it to empty directories so it keeps asking you for another directory where Eclipse lives.Actually I don’t even get as far as the MyEclipse splash screen. I believe it may be looking for a temporary directory to install from. (I also emptied my Windows/TEMP as well as other TEMP directories on my PC).
To me, this seems to be the installer asking for a directory.
I’m not quite sure I understand the problem, so let me clarify (correct me if I’m wrong):
1) You double click the installer, and before the InstallSheild splash screen pops up, you get some message about “choosing another directory”?
OR
2) You double click the installer, it starts up fine and starts asking you for locations to install MyEclipse and no matter what dir you select, it doesn’t accept it?If it is #1, can you double check the free space on the drive you are running the installer from as well as the drive that Windows is installed on?
It is the first one.
When I start the installer it goes through the Extracting (showing the % complete). The VERY next thing I see is a message telling me to choose another directory for the installer (or whatever) to use. It is NOT the normal message which asks for the directory where Eclipse is installed OR where I want MyEclipse installed.
I have 20Gigs open on my C: drive which is where I am installing to/from.
Thanks for the quick replies.
this is clearly the problem, the installer needs 21gig of space to install 🙂
Kidding, what I would like you to try is to open a command line window and type:
set LAX_DEBUG=1 <installer name>.exewhere <installer name> is the name of the exe, to run the installer. Now copy-paste the conetns of your console window here for us to check it out.
Thank you.
I won’t be able to do this for a while as I am not at my normal computer. But will do as soon as I can.
Thanks for your help thus far.
There is NOT a whole lot to see as the set LAX_DEBUG=1 didn’t produce any output.
C:\Documents and Settings\Brad Balmer\My Documents>set LAX_DEBUG=1
C:\Documents and Settings\Brad Balmer\My Documents>EnterpriseWorkbenchInstaller_030700RC2.exe
C:\Documents and Settings\Brad Balmer\My Documents>
The window I get is an InstallAnywhere window that specifically states:
‘Please select another location to extract the installer to:’Again, I’m running Windows XP
Thanks
I can’t help but think this is a permissions issue of some sort. I’m thinking install shield is unable to compress the installer’s contents to the temp dir for some reason or another.
Are you logged in as administrator or a user with Administrator privaledges?
As administrator. I had the previous version installed for Eclipse M4 before this. I first uninstalled MyEclipse and then blew away the Eclipse directory so there shouldn’t be anything leftover from the prior installation.
bbalmer,
I’m sorry I haven’t been able to help you with this. I’ve forwarded your problem onto our support guru, I’m hoping he can help you out.Can you please dump your commandline environment from a command shell with the env command and post it here? Do you have environment variables for TEMP and TMP set to valid directories? From a commandline, when you type ‘java -version’ what do you get?
My java version is:
java version “1.4.2_03”
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_03-b02)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_03-b02, mixed mode)I’m on a windows xp maching and the env command doesn’t work (I’m not sure of the command to dump the environment).
But, BOTH the %TMP% and %TEMP% directories point to a valid directory (C:\Temp) which is empty.
I knew this issue sounded familiar. There is a problem with ZeroG’s Install Anywhere and the lateste version of JDK 1.4.2. We ran down the problem in this thread:
https://www.genuitec.com/forums/topic/exe-installer-2-6-3-aborts-with-jsdk-1-4-2-02-closed/&highlight=windows+installerIf you have a JDK 1.4.1 version installed, you can specify that it should be used by setting the environment variable LAX_VM=<path-to-javaw.exe> (ie. LAX_VM=C:\Program Files\Java\j2re1.4.2_01\bin\javaw.exe )
