1.2. Installing J-Ben from a precompiled package

1.2.1. Windows users

Most users should use the regular J-Ben installer package, which should be available from the project web site. This installer is most suitable for standard installs of J-Ben.

If you are installing J-Ben onto a USB thumb drive or similar device, you may want to instead download one of the zipped (.zip or .7z) versions of the program and extract it by hand. In this case, to run the program you will want to look for jben.exe, located in the J-Ben\bin folder.

When you run J-Ben for the first time, it will prompt you as to whether you want to run J-Ben in "standard" or "mobile" mode. This simply refers to where J-Ben will store its data files. If you're running on a thumb drive or similar, select "mobile", and your data files will be saved to the thumb drive. If you've installed J-Ben permanently on your system, select "standard", and your files will be stored in your user's Application Data folder. (Usually this is C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data.)

1.2.2. Linux users

At the time of writing, no precompiled packages exist. I have plans to eventually have J-Ben added to Debian, and if I can make a Linux Standard Base-compliant package I would like to do that as well. For the time being though, it is necessary to compile from source.

#!/bin/sh
cd <path_to_jben>
./jben

Put that in /usr/bin or similar, do a chmod +x on it and that'll make things simpler.