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Chapter 2. Installation

In order to properly run the software on Microsoft® Windows® systems the following requirements have to be fulfilled:

Requirements

Hardware

• A x86 or compatible PC, with at least an Intel® Pentium®-Processor rated at 166MHz
• minimal 64Mbytes RAM
• at least 10Mbytes harddisk-space in order to allow proper working
• A SVGA-capable graphics-adapter, screen-resolution should be at least 800x600 Pixels
• An internet connection (at least for loading mapsets)
• Optional: A GPS-Receiver with serial- or USB-interface, capable to offer a virtual COM-Port to the system and fulfilling the NMEA-Standard

Software

• Microsoft® Windows®, Version 95/98/ME or NT 4.0/2000/XP
• A Sun Java-Runtime installed, Version 1.4.1 or higher
• Direct access to the internet; if you have a firewall installed, you will have to allow java.exe to perform an internet connection

Download & Install

You can download an actual wlandscape-built-version from SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=67485

Follow these steps in order to install wlandscape:

1. Download a Build-version from SourceForge
2. Extract the file to a clean directory
3. Make sure you have an actual Sun Java Runtime-Version (JRE) installed
4. Copy the file javax.comm.properties out of the main-directory to your JRE-lib-directory
5. Edit the run.(bat|sh)-file so that the java-home-directory matches your Java-installation
6. Start the application by executing run.(bat|sh) from within the wlandscape-directory