Installation Instructions

Requirements:

• Java 8 (or later)
• Elite Dangerous

On the Releases page, find the latest release (which should be the first one listed) and click the EDEPS.zip link to download the application.

Download and unzip this file anywhere you choose on your local disk. There is no "installer" at the moment, but I may look into one if it makes sense. Right now though, I don't see a real need for one.

The distribution zip contains the .jar file, a /lib directory, and a /bin directory. There are two options for running the application:

1. Double click the jar (or use java -jar to run from the command line)
2. open the /bin folder, and double click (or run from the command line) the EDEPS.bat file

Simply running the jar is typically easiest, and in most cases should be fine. However, if you wish to debug any crash errors, running from the batch file will open console window in addition to the main UI that will contain some messages output from the app as well as any exceptions should the app crash for some reason.

One other advantage to running from the batch file is that you can specify how much memory the app can use. By default, the batch file starts the app with 512 MB of RAM. When launching the jar directly, the amount of memory allocated to the app is decided by the JVM. In most cases though, launching the jar directly should not cause issues with your system, using the batch file simply gives more control over the app.