Oct 06 2008
Sometimes the LiveCycle Turnkey installation wizard does not proceed
Disease:
You have downloaded and extracted the LiveCycle ES Turnkey installer to your desktop. When running the installer it gets stuck at the ‘Type of Installation’ dialog screen, so that you can’t continue installing the software.
Prescription:
Typically why a turnkey install won’t proceed from this point is due to a “Directory too deep for turnkey installation” error. What this means is that the directory you are running the installer from (say, a network location such as \\SomeServer01\Software\Installations\, or a folder somewhere deep in My Documents and Settings – like your desktop folder) is too distant from the location you are trying to install to and LiveCycle and the path between them is too long for LiveCycle to use. So the solution is to choose for an install directory in e.g. your C:/ drive.
Tip to stay healthy:
LiveCycle can be installed ‘manually’ which allows you to deeply integrate it into applications (java application servers, databases etc) that have already been deployed in your environment. However, it means that there is a lot of configuration that you have to do yourself.
As a developer that is often not the first thing you want to have to bother about, especially not when you start learning what LiveCycle can do for you. Or, you do not even have all the required software installed at all. In that case the Turnkey install option is a great trouble saver.
Adobe LiveCycle ES Updater 1 comes with Turnkey installers for JBoss, Websphere as well as Weblogic for both Windows and UNIX. As with most of the Adobe software there are trials available online, at www.adobe.com/go/lces_trial.
