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Installation Instructions

controllerface edited this page Jun 12, 2018 · 9 revisions

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 a /lib directory, and a /bin directory themselves inside an /EDEPS directory. You do not strictly _need _to keep them in the EDEPS directory, but they must be in the same positions relative to each other to work correctly.

There are two options for running the application:

  1. Double click the EDEPS.jar file within the /lib directory
  2. Double click the EDEPS.bat file within the /bin folder

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 message and 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 128 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.

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