This Plug-in requires IDEA 5.0 or higher. See the section called “System requirements” for the basic requirements to run Jalopy.

The Plug-in comes as an executable Jar Archive (JAR) that contains a graphical setup wizard to let you easily install the software. Wizard installation is recommended and explained in detail in the section called “Wizard Installation”.

If you would rather install the Plug-in manually, you have to decompress and copy the appropriate files into the different application and/or settings folders. To decompress the contents of the installer JAR, you can often use the build-in support of your file manager (e.g. Nautilus) or any other software that can handle the ZIP compression format (e.g. 7Zip, WinZip or Stuffit Expander). If you don’t have access to one of the convenience tools, you might resort to the jar command-line application that ships with your Java distribution.

If you’re upgrading from a prior version and want to keep your settings, first copy or rename the current Jalopy settings directory to match the version number of the new release. For instance, if your current settings directory is C:\Documents and Settings\John Doo\.jalopy\1.9 and you’re about to install Jalopy 1.9.3, either copy the directory contents or rename it to C:\Documents and Settings\.jalopy\John Doo\1.9.3. Wizard installation can perform this step automatically.

Make sure IDEA is not running and remove any present Jalopy files in your IDEA Plugin folder. The IDEA Plugin folder is located in the root directory of your IDEA installation, e.g. C:\Program Files\IDEA\plugins. Check for a jalopy/lib subdirectory. If it exists, delete its contents. Otherwise create it.

Then copy the two JAR files jalopy-1.9.3.jar and jalopy-idea-1.9.3.jar into this plugins/jalopy/lib folder.