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Installing Pavlov

Installing Pavlov

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Updated 22 May 04 For 1.1X Releases

First off, you have to have Java (version 1.5.0B1 or later) installed on your computer. You can download it at http://www.java.com.

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Pavlov 1.0 only required Java 1.4.

Now download Pavlov. Pavlov releases are distributed in familiar-acting installers. The full installation is about 6 MB, so you should have 12 MB of available disk space to install it. Pavlov takes about 8MB of RAM to run, but big pluglets can increase that to around 30MB of RAM.

Download the appropriate installer. The ".jar" installer runs on any java-capable computer. On PC's and Macs you should be able just to double-click the ".jar" installer and be off and running.

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Experience has shown that the ".jar" installer works slightly better than the ".exe" installer. (For you experts: the .exe asks the user to type in the location of java.exe if it can't find it, which might be a bit intimidating.)

Since the 1.0 release, the installer will create two files "Pavlov.bat" and "Pavlov_guest.bat" (.sh in Unix). You can double-click on these to run Pavlov. There is also a Bee.bat file for creating books of your own questions.

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Double-clicking the "pavlov-1.XX.jar" file probably won't work, as it won't load all the jars in Pavlov's "lib" subdirectory.

If it doesn't work, your computer probably doesn't know where to find the java program (java.exe on windows). You can edit the run.bat or run.sh files to tell your computer where to find java.

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If Pavlov starts to run, then freaks out, you're probably using an older version of Java. (If you run Pavlov from a console, it's not unusual to see a bit of "spam," especially in the Beta releases.)

If you're having problems with the installer or understanding the documentation, try our Forum to see if someone else has already answered the question, or tell us what's going on and we can try to help. Nobody here is going to give you a hard time for asking a question.