Freesome - Pete Hobson

I ran into a problem installing a few of the Nokia SDK's on XP today. The problem is the installer complaining of not being able to find a suitable Java 2 Runtime Environment. Now, a couple of things could of caused this, I recently installed both JBuilder X, and Java 2 1.5. Possibly one or both of these are causing the InstallAnywhere installer to fall over… Its quite an old version in use on some of the SDK’s, especially the Series 40’s. Luckily, the installer leaves some temporary files around they are a folder starting with an I, and then 10 Digits.

Fire up a DOS shell with Start->run->cmd and type

E:\I1114475514\Windows>S40_DP20_SDK_1_1_installer.exe LAX_VM "D:\Program Files\J
ava\jre1.5.0\bin\java.exe"

Replacing the 1st argument with the folder created on your machine by the failed install and the exe name of the installer which it creates in the windows sub-folder, and the final argument with the path to you JRE. Notice I had to use quotes because of the space in Program Files. The install will continue, after complaining again about the lack of a suitable JRE, (odd as by this time the installer is running in a JRE itself). Job’s a good ‘un!