Re: Problems installing Swarm 2.2

[Paul Johnson]

address@hidden wrote:
> Now, I don't know what's next. Can anybody tell me:
> - if this is ok so far
> - what to do next, step by step (e.g. (how) should I uninstall 2.1.1, where
> should I install the new files, what paths to change etc.)


About two weeks ago I added an element in the Swarm FAQ and today I go 
looking in there for a reference to it and it has magically disappeared! 
I'm totally stunned. I have a fear I've run up against a Mozilla browser 
problem interacting with the FAQ manager software.

Anyway, I'll have to put something back in there, as soon as I find out 
why it disappeared in the first place.  It is particularly discouraging 
to me because I'm not a windows user and I hate having to do this twice.


But you need to do these things.

1. remove swarm-2.1 with the windows uninstall program.

2. Install the new cygwin toolkit, make sure it runs. Open a cygwin 
terminal, type mount, make sure it looks proper, verify that / is 
pointing to the directory where you install cygwin. It defaults to 
c:\cygwin.

3. Untar the swarm-2.2 pretest into an obvious place like c:\Swarm-2.2. 
  The cygwin toolkit has tar and you can use that to open up the tar.gz 
that Marcus prepares.  You can drop that whereever you want, anyplace 
like c:\Swarm-2.2 is ok. I think it would also be fine if you drop it 
under cygwin, so it could be in c:\cygwin\Swarm-2.2.  It is important 
that you preserve folder/directory structure when you open that up.

4. On your system, find out how to edit the PATH. Windows constantly 
changes how this is done. SO learn how, and then put your Swarm-2.2\bin 
directory at the front of the path. IT is vital that it be in the 
front,before cygwin.

5. If you installed Swarm-2.2 into c:\cygwin\Swarm-2.2, I think you can 
ignore this next step. If you installed it somewhere else, you need to 
mount the swarm directory under /Swarm-2.2, so I think if you dumped the 
swarm pretest in c:\Swarm-2.2 it should be (in a cygwin terminal you type)

mkdir /Swarm-2.2
mount c:\\Swarm-2.2 /Swarm-2.2

Please note I intend the double backslash.

6. Java support works through scripts. So lookin those scripts like 
jdkswarm and see if the class path differs from your install.

7. I am not sure, but I think a lot of things go easier of you set an 
environment variable SWARMDIR. And set that equal to wherever you put 
the swarm pretest.

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Paul E. Johnson                       email: address@hidden
Dept. of Political Science            http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn
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