Chapter 2. Installation

Table of Contents

1. Install on Linux
2. Manual install on Windows
3. Installation of Qizx Server

Installation of Qizx simply consists in unpacking the zipped distribution:

1. Install on Linux

  1. Check that the requirements of the previous chapter are met by your platform. In particular, you need a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.5+. For example:

    $ java -version
    java version "1.5.0_11"
    Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_11-b03)
    Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_11-b03, mixed mode, sharing)
    
  2. Unzip the qizx.zip package. This will create a qizx-VVV directory where VVV is the version of Qizx.

    For example:

    $ cd /usr/share
    $ unzip -l /tmp/qizx-4.1.zip
    $ ls qizx-4.1
    bin  config  docs  legal  lib  server src.zip

    You can directly run the qizx or qizxstudio shell scripts from any location by giving the proper path:

    $ qizx-4.1/bin/qizxstudio &
  3. You may want to add the directory QIZX_HOME/bin to your PATH environment variable.

2. Manual install on Windows

  1. Check that the requirements of the previous chapter are met by your platform. In particular, you need a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.5+. For example:

    C:\Program Files> java -version
    java version "1.5.0_11"
    Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_11-b03)
    Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_11-b03, mixed mode, sharing)
    
  2. Unzip the qizx.zip package. This will create a qizx-VVV directory where VVV is the version of Qizx.

    For example:

    C:\Program Files> unzip -l \temp\qizx-4.1.zip
    C:\Program Files> dir qizx-4.1
    ... <DIR> bin
    ... <DIR> config  
    ... <DIR> docs  
    ... <DIR> legal  
    ... <DIR> lib  
    ... <DIR> server  
    ... <DIR> src.zip

    You can directly run the qizx.bat or qizxstudio.bat batch files from any location by giving the proper path:

    C:\Program Files> qizx-4.1\bin\qizxstudio
  3. You may want to add the directory QIZX_ROOT\bin to your PATH environment variable.

3. Installation of Qizx Server

Please see the chapter "Qizx Server".