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    mmogley
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    I downloaded the 7.1 installer for windows and tried running it on my WinVista 32-bit. Everything was going smoothly right up until the very end where it fails with the message:

    The specified Java VM, C:\Program Files\Genuitec\Common\binary\com.sun.java.jre.win32.x86_1.5.0.011\bin\javaw.exe, does not exist.

    What now?

    Michael

    #296252

    support-joy
    Member

    Hi Michael,

    Sorry to hear that you encountered this issue. Can you verify if you have javaw.exe located in this path – C:\Program Files\Genuitec\Common\binary\com.sun.java.jre.win32.x86_1.5.0.011\bin\ ? I would suggest you to download a full JDK and configure environment variable JAVA_HOME to the bin directory of your JDK. Let me know if this works out?

    #296258

    Ton Huisman
    Member

    AFAIK, (My)Eclipse should not be installed in Program Files when installing on Windows Vista. The suggested paths during installation should be used.

    #296299

    mmogley
    Member

    Joy,

    No, I don’t have anything installed under Genuitec\Common since this is a CLEAN install. I had already downloaded and installed the Sun JDK 1.6 but I hadn’t had the JAVA_HOME variable defined. Not sure why I would need this since the ME install is supposed to be all-in-one.

    Still, I tried setting the JAVA_HOME and that didn’t work. What worked was huisma13’s suggestion to use the default paths, which do not make any sense to me. Why should a program be installed under a particular user’s directory? And why shouldn’t I be able to use any path I like?

    -M

    #296320

    support-joy
    Member

    Weird, I will have a dev team member investigate this for you. One question, at the time of installation, what is the directory you have suggested for MyEclipse Install Location and Common Software? Refer to the below screen shot. This will help me replicate this issue at my end.

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    #296373

    Loyal Water
    Member

    mmogley,
    It doesn’t *have* to be default, the problem is C:\Program Files in Vista is now a “protected location” — it requires administrative rights to write to.

    The Vista install guideline docs recommend software needing full read/write access by the user get installed under the ~HOME/AppData directory — it’s weird, but it’s what Microsoft says.

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