Sams Teach Yourself Java 6 in 21 Days

Sams Teach Yourself Java 6 in 21 Days - Installation Error

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David Ellis - 31 Mar 2008 10:59 GMT

Hi,

I have just bought the book Sams "Teach Yourself Java 6 in 21 Days",
and am getting an error installing the JDK supplied with the book.

After running "start.exe", I select the AMD 64 installation package.
After the InstallShield package loads up, I get an error, "This
installation package is not supported by this processor type. Contact
your product vendor.".
The installation then aborts and I cannot get any further.

I have an HP PC with AMD Athlon 64 X2 processor, running Windows
Vista.

Has anyone installed the software successfully on a similar platform,
or knows what might be wrong?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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Andrea Francia - 31 Mar 2008 11:31 GMT

> After running "start.exe", I select the AMD 64 installation package.
> After the InstallShield package loads up, I get an error, "This
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
> Has anyone installed the software successfully on a similar platform,
> or knows what might be wrong?

May be the JDK from the book is only for 32 bit machines.
I suggest you to retrieve the JDK from the official sun site.

To find the download page search in google "download jdk".

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Lew - 31 Mar 2008 11:34 GMT

David Ellis wrote:

>> After running "start.exe", I select the AMD 64 installation package.
>> After the InstallShield package loads up, I get an error, "This
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
>> Has anyone installed the software successfully on a similar platform,
>> or knows what might be wrong?

> May be the JDK from the book is only for 32 bit machines.

That configuration should be able to execute 32-bit code just fine.

Still, going with Sun's JDK sounds like a good bet.

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Sabine Dinis Blochberger - 31 Mar 2008 11:53 GMT

> Hi,
>
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> I have an HP PC with AMD Athlon 64 X2 processor, running Windows
> Vista.

Probably your Windows is not 64 bit. That's what counts.

Install the 32 bit version, it works on either setup.

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