Chapter 2. Installation

Xerlin is very simple to install. This chapter will tell you

Requirements

Xerlin requires a computer system with the following:

  • Java 2 Standard Edition (see below)
  • Relatively fast processor (300Mhz or higher for Intel architecture chips)
  • At least 32MB of RAM, 64MB or more recommended

Xerlin requires a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) which implements Sun's Java 2 Standard Edition. Recommended versions are JDK or JRE version 1.2.2 and later. Xerlin has been tested to work with Sun's JDK 1.2.2 and 1.3 on Windows, Linux x86, and Solaris (x86 and sparc) platforms. It has also been tested with IBM's JDK 1.3 on Linux. Other platforms with a working JVM of these versions should work fine, but haven't been fully tested. Sun's Java 2 SE is available from http://java.sun.com/j2se/. You need either the Runtime Environment, or the SDK.

Note: As of this writing, there is no Java 2 Platform for the classic MacOS (7, 8, or 9). However, MacOS X has a Java 2 Virtual Machine which we have not yet had a chance to test Xerlin with.