Navigate to the desired installation directory, ensuring you are running as the desired user and extract the archive using either 3rd party utilities such as 7-Zip or the Windows built-in tar command, for example:
Other options of tar can also be used such as ‑C to specify the installation location. See tar ‑‑help for more details.
You MUST set the
HELIX_QAC_LOCATION environment variable before using the Eclipse plugin or Visual Studio extension - see 'Using a specific version of Helix QAC' in the respective manual on how to set this.No GUI Menu entries will be created.
No plugins (VS Code, Eclipse or Visual Studio) are automatically registered/installed. See the respective manuals for details on how this can be done.
Post Installation Actions
Depending upon the user’s set-up you may want to update your PATH environment variable to include the Helix QAC executables. For example: