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Installing the Full Design Studio

Java JRE

The Design Studio does not include a Java runtime environment (JRE). You will need a 1.5.0 level or higher Java runtime or Java development kit (also known as J2SE 5.0) installed on your machine in order to run the Design Studio. If you have the Pentaho BI Platform Pre-Configured Install (sometimes called the Pentaho Demo) installed on your machine then you already have a usable JRE.

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You can also download a free JRE from Sun Microsystems. The Java™ 2 SDK, Standard Edition Version 1.5.0 can be found on the Sun Microsystems download site. Once you have a JRE installed make sure that the jre/bin directory is in your path.

Design Studio

A zip file containing the Pentaho Design Studio for the Windows platform is available from the Pentaho Clients download site. The full design studio download contains Eclipse 3.2 bundled with the all the Pentaho plug-ins needed to run both the action sequence editor as well as the Report Design Wizard. Download the pentaho-design-studio_X.X.X.X.zip, and unzip the file to your location of choice, it will create a directory named "pentaho-design-studio" and extract all its files there.  No other setup is required.  To run the platform, execute PentahoDesignStudio.exe.

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