[SailfishDevel] Fwd: Massive issues while installing SailfishOS IDE

[Helge Täubert]

Hello,

I have found the same problem with special characters. It has also been
reported in:
http://forum.jollausers.com/sailfish-developers/sailfishos-sdk-under-windows-7/

Helge

Am 23.11.2013 17:12, schrieb Gabriel Böhme:
> Hi,
>
> I have the same problem with the SailfishOS IDE in Windows 7 and guess
> special chars and/or spaces causes the issues. The main folder is
> C:/SailfishOS and also my projects are in C:/SailfishOS/projects, but
> the "SailfishAlpha2" folder in AppData is just affected, cause it's in
> the user path, in my case a very bad path "Gabriel Böhme". So a
> special char and a space. :)
>
> I'll try with a new user later, if this works it should be clear.
>
> Gabriel.
>
> Am 22.11.2013 15:47, schrieb Juha Kallioinen:
>> On 22.11.2013 12:58, Kajetan Dobczyk wrote:
>>>
>>> After the IDE installation:
>>>
>>> - There's no Sailfish project option in "File -> New File or
>>> Project", although Mer is checked in "Help -> About Plugins"
>>>
>>> - In "Tools -> Options -> Mer", when I click "Start Emulator",
>>> nothing happens, either in SailfishOS Emulator / MerSDK. My
>>> VirtualBox is 4.1.8, I've tried with the newest one too. After one
>>> of many installations, I could turn on the emulator, but when I
>>> tested the connection, I got this message: "ssh connection failure:
>>> server rejected key.".
>>> I see that some other folders are created on my hard drive - IDE is
>>> installed in "Sailfish", and near it are "SailfishOS" and "Sailfish
>>> OS". Maybe the uninstall utility doesn't clear everything?
>>>
>> There should only be one directory under which the SDK (IDE) is
>> installed. You get to select this path when running the installer.
>>
>> The uninstall utility does not clean everything. It does its best to
>> remove the main installation directory which usually is called
>> SailfishOS. It leaves behind the QtCreator configuration directory,
>> which contains for example paths to the installation directory.
>>
>> Since you are seeing several directories with the word Sailfish in
>> them, is it possible that you have tried to install the SDK multiple
>> times to different paths? If this is the case, then the
>> aforementioned config files may contain wrong paths, which will lead
>> to problems when trying to use QtCreator.
>>
>> In Linux this configuration data is saved under the
>> /home/username/.config/SailfishAlpha2 directory. In Windows it should
>> be under C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\SailfishAlpha2.
>>
>> Could you run the uninstaller once more and then manually remove that
>> SailfishAlpha2 directory?
>>
>> Afterwards, when running the installer, please choose a path that
>> does not have any space characters in it. The SDK does not currently
>> work properly if the install path has spaces.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>  Juha
>>
>>
>>
>>
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