[Jalview-discuss] cannot install jalview on windows 7 64 bit - help anyone?

[Jim Procter]

  After a very productive conversation with Bino, I've updated the issue 
related to this:
>
> http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-626
>
Basically, it seems that the current (2.5.1 version, built on 16th June 
2010) 'jalview with VM' version crashes soon after startup on WIndows 7. 
In the crash files (called someting like "hs_err_pidXXXX.log" in the 
Jalview install directory) you'll probably see that the version of Java 
being used is much older than the latest version on your machine.

To make sure you use the latest version of Java on your machine when you 
run Jalview installed via installAnywhere on Windows 7, you need to make 
sure your java is up to date, and download the 'Windows 'no VM'' version 
of Jalview.

To be doubly sure, I've also updated the Jalview installers for the 
latest release and development versions on the jalview development page 
(http://www.jalview.org/versions.html). So if you still have problems, 
get the latest installAnywhere version from there, or from this link:
http://www.compbio.dundee.ac.uk/~ws-dev1/jalview/release/InstallAnywhere/Web_Installers/install.htm

if anyone still has problems with running Jalview on windows 7, please 
let me know as soon as possible!
Jim.

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