Prerequisites

There are two major prerequisites, which have to be in place to install Tricia.

1. Since Tricia is a Java application, a current (1.6) Java runtime has to be installed. Java can be downloaded from http://www.java.com.
2. We use Mercurial as our version control system, and we use it as well as our distribution channel, so you have to install Mercurial on your machine. Binary packages of Mercurial can be found at http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/BinaryPackages.

Overview

Tricia is a framework, so you will have to download not only Tricia, but your own Tricia-application you wish to run inside of the framework. We recommend you keep a  (bitbucket) repository of your project online, from which you can pull updates to your application from the bitbucket server. Installing and updating your own application will be done with the same installation tooling used to install Tricia.

Tricia can be installed as a windows service, and you can start and stop the service under Windows by going to Start->Control Panel->Administrative Tools and choosing Services, and selecting the Tricia Service.

Installation

At first, go on the command-line to the folder in which you want to install Tricia, e.g., C:/webapps. Run the command

hg clone http://bitbucket.org/infoasset/tricia-installer tricia

This will create a new mercurial repository in a new folder called /tricia/, which contains the folders /tricia/backup/ and /tricia/scripts/.

Then go into the folder /tricia/scripts/ and run the command:

java -jar installer.jar install 2.6

This can take a while (3-5 minutes), creating the additional folders 

/tricia/software,

 /tricia/properties and

 /tricia/data.

Now you can start Tricia using the command:

nt-run.bat

Unless you changed the settings, this will start Tricia on port 8084, and create an administration account with the login "mustermann@test.tricia" and the password "ottto".

Troubleshooting

The browser does not start with the configurator

Open a browser manually and go to the URL http://localhost:8088