Installation using the Installer

Starting with version 3.3.0 of OpenEMPI there is now a user-friendly installer that you can use to install the software. The same installer can be used to install both the community and commercial editions of the software and the installer can be used to install the software on both Linux and Windows machines.This page describes the step-by-step process for installing OpenEMPI using the installer on a Linux system. The processing for installing the software on a Windows systems is similar.

The installer is distributed as an executable jar file. In order to use the installer you must already have installed a Java version 8 JDK on your machine and the the JAVA_HOME environment variable must point to the distribution and the binary tools that are included in the JDK must be in your path.

To run the installer use the following command:

$ java -jar openempi-3.3.0-installer.jar

For later version of the software just substitute the correct full name of the distributed installer. You should now be presented with the Welcome screen of the installer.

Press the "Next" button to go to the next screen where you are presented with the software license for the software.

The next screen allows you to select the installation directory for OpenEMPI:

The next screen simply lists all the components that are part of the installation. Here you can select any optional components in the installation if any.

Pressing the "Next" button begins the installation of the software.

The next screen executes the script that customizes the installation for your selected

Pressing the "Next" button takes you to screen that shows you what are the next steps after completing the installation of the software.

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The last screen tells you how to uninstall the software using the auto-generated uninstaller. You can now press the "Done" button to exit the installer.

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