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Important Installation Information for OpenLearn Compendium 1.5.1 IV. Contacting Technical Support Welcome to Compendium Compendium is a
hypertext concept mapping tool which can be used as an individual or
group tool to model problems, and capture discussions. II. Install Compendium (Back) Compendium requires a Java Runtime Environment (JRE 5.0+) to be installed, a version of which is included in the Compendium installer. If you have a previous version of installed you can install this version directly over your existing installation. The default location is: C:\Program Files\Compendium-OpenLearn. The release is for 10.4 (Tiger) and requires Java J2SE 5.0 Release 4 (1.5.0_04) or later. If you have kept up-to-date with your updates, you should already have a suitable version of the Java JRE installed. If you are unsure which version of Java you have installed, open a terminal window (inside Applications/Utilities/Terminal) and type: java-version Once you have downloaded the relevant .dmg file from the compendiuminstitute.org website you need to double click the .dmg file to mount the disk image. This will open a window showing you the compendium .pkg file. Double click the package file and this will run the installer. Follow the installer instructions. NOTE:Currently, due to unresolved file permission issues, only the user installing Compendium will be able to run it, unless Compendium subfolders have thier permissions changed appropriately. TECH TIP: You might like to be aware that Compendium sets the Memory allocation for the JRE up to 256mb (the default is 64mb). If you need to change this value for any reason, you will need to open the contents of the Compendium Application file using the 'Show Package Contents' option on the right-click menu, then open the Contents' folder and edit the VMOptions property in the info.plist file. Please only attempt this if you are a confident user. TECH TIP: In order to automatically open external files and links on the Mac, Compendium stores file extension and application associations in a file in <Compendium home folder>/System/resources called LaunchApplications.properties. This file is added to as the user tries to launch various file types for the first time and picks an application to use. We have preloaded this file with three type, 'www', 'http' and 'https', and we have associated them with the path '/Applications/Safari'. If you do not have this application or have it in another location, you will need to edit this file appropriately. Compendium is a Java application, so it requires a Java Runtime Environment (JRE 5.0+) to be installed before you can run it. You can download this from http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp Once you have downloaded the relevant .tar file from the compendiuminstitute.org website, simply unpack it. You can run Compendium by navigating to the Compendium directory and typing: ./compendium.sh TECH TIP: In order to automatically open external files and links on Linux, Compendium stores file extension and application associations in a file in <Compendium home folder>/System/resources called LaunchApplications.properties. This file is added to as the user tries to launch various file types for the first time and picks an application to use. We have preloaded this file with three type, 'www', 'http' and 'https', and we have associated them with the path '/usr/bin/mozilla'. If you do not have this application or have it in another location, you will need to edit this file appropriately.
IV. Contacting Technical Support (Back) If you want Help and Support installing Compendium for OpenLearn then post a message to the Help and Support Forum. If you want to discuss the design or effectiveness of Compendium for OpenLearn then go to the Tools Forum. Thank you for trying Compendium. |