Installation Instructions

Overview

To download screen-scraper, see the page for the edition you'd like to install. Run the installer to set installation options and install screen-scraper. For headless servers, run the installer with a -C flag to indicate the system is headless and the installer shouldn't try to open graphical popups for installation options

• Basic Edition
• Professional Edition
• Enterprise Edition

You may want to compare editions before choosing which to install.

Troubleshooting Linux Installs

screen-scraper ships with a Java Runtime Environment that should work in most distributions of Linux. Because the distributions can vary quite a bit, however, you may need to install a separate Java Runtime Environment and then point screen-scraper to it. If you're able to successfully install screen-scraper, but are having trouble starting it, try downloading the latest Java Runtime Environment from www.java.com for your particular distribution. Once you've installed the JRE, you can point screen-scraper to it by modifying the screen-scraper and server start scripts located in the screen-scraper installation folder.

1. Open the files.
2. Locate the INSTALL4J_JAVA_HOME_OVERRIDE property (near the top of both files).
3. Uncomment the property by removing the pound (#) in front of it.
4. Set the value to the location of the JRE you installed on your system.

As an example: the property might look like this:

This tells screen-scraper to use the JRE located at the given path rather than the one it ships with, or some other JRE that might be on your system.