Installation
QuickDownloader is very easy to install. There are four types of installers which can be used to install QuickDownloader. Information is given on each installer type
|
Installer Type |
OS Support |
Requirements |
Platforms Tested |
|
OS Independent |
All OS |
JRE v1.2 and above |
Windows 2000 Windows XP Redhat Linux |
|
Windows
|
Windows Only |
JRE v1.2 and above |
Windows 2000 Windows XP |
|
Linux
|
Linux & UNIX Only |
JRE v1.2 and above |
Redhat Linux |
|
Windows inc JRE |
Windows Only |
- |
Windows 2000 Windows XP |
With either one of the installers you should find the following files in the directory you installed QuickDownloader to
QuickDownloader Home
-->config directory
---->props directory
downloads.hist
properties.xml
tags.prop
---->themes directory
{themes}
themes.txt
---->logs directory
sys.txt
-->RunMe.sh/RunMe.bat (OS Independent Installations only)
-->QuickDownloader.exe (Windows Installations only)
Do not delete or move this files as QuickDownloader will not be able to find them causing it to crash
The Windows and Linux installer is usually named installer.exe. Simply double click on it and follow the instructions
Double click on install.exe/install.sh
The following window appears so click ok
That should complete the installation. You should find a QuickDownloader start up script/exe on your desktop.
The OS Independent Installer should be unzipped to a directory and to load QuickDownloader double click on the RunME.bat or RunMe.sh.
Inorder to run this startup scripts your require an environment variable called JAVA_HOME which points to your JDK home directory.
For Linux use
export JAVA_HOME={JDK Location}
For Windows
Set JAVA_HOME={JDK Location}
For more info open the start up files as it gives further info on how to set up your enviroment
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