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Installation

Tue, 11/06/2007 - 02:56 — amharrison

Note: Instructions below are outdated. Will update soonish. For now, go to the Eclipse Market Place (under Help menu in eclipse). Search for "jactr" install the core and the IDE support. It will take some time, but the tool seems to (finally) find all the dependencies.

Assuming you have installed the prerequisite software, you are now ready to install jACT-R. The first thing that you need to do is to tell Eclipse which update sites to search for the software. Those who are less inclined to read can view either of these screencasts (install1, install2).

  1. Launch Eclipse
  2. Open the Update Manager (Help -> Software Updates -> Find and Install..)

The update manager allows you to specify which websites to query for new or updated software. You're going to tell it about a series of update sites for the core, ide, and example software. (you can also import all the relevant update sites by importing this file)

  1. Select Search for new features to install and click Next
  2. Click New Remote Site...
  3. Enter the name and url for the following update sites:
Make sure the new update sites are selected in the checkbox list, as well as Eclipse Project Updates (as it is necessary for some of the support packages). Clicking on Finish will query all the sites for available updates.
  1. Select the jACT-R packages to install. If an error is reported (unsatisfied dependencies), click on Select Required (this might take some time).
  2. Click on Next and finish up the installation.

After the reboot, you should be installed. Coming next, how to use the IDE.