I've found that the InstallAnywhere crashes every time I try to run it in Ubuntu 9.10, and i get this message:
Preparing to install...
Extracting the JRE from the installer archive...
Unpacking the JRE...
Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive...
Configuring the installer for this system's environment...
Launching installer...
An internal LaunchAnywhere application error has occured and this application cannot proceed. (LAX)
Stack Trace:
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Malformed \uxxxx encoding.
at java.util.Properties.loadConvert(Unknown Source)
at java.util.Properties.load0(Unknown Source)
at java.util.Properties.load(Unknown Source)
at com.zerog.common.java.util.PropertiesUtil.loadProperties(DashoA10*..)
at com.zerog.lax.LAX.<init>(DashoA10*..)
at com.zerog.lax.LAX.main(DashoA10*..)
As it turns out, InstallAnywhere has this problem if you have TITLEBAR set with ANSI control chars in it (which it needs to tell the terminal window to put this text in the title bar) or if you have control chars in your prompt in order to color it, you'll get this message. All you need to do is set those two variables to something innocuous, with no control chars in it, and the installer will work. I was able to install iTest 4.0 on an Ubuntu 9.10 64bit system successfully.
Hope this helps some folks out there.
T.
