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There are usually two different scenarios for installing VLAB, depending on how many people are going to be using VLAB at your site. If there is only one person going to be using it, you can perform Personal Installation. Otherwise, Site Installation is probably a better choice as it can save some disk space.
Personal Installation | An individual user installs VLAB. This person will be the only person using VLAB. |
Site Installation | VLAB is installed in a global location by a system administrator. Multiple users use this installation, but maintain their own customization files. |
VLAB can be installed using the following 3 steps. Depending on which installation you are going to perform, you might have to omit some steps.
The following steps install VLAB. If your administrator already performed this step, you can skip to the next step. Just find out where VLAB is installed.
This procedure installed all VLAB components in <vlabdir>/bin/i686 and the default configuration files in <vlabdir>/config. It also installed an example OOFS database in <vlabdir>/oofs. VLAB documentation can be found in the <vlabdir>/html-docs directory.
In order for you to be able to run the vlab application from any command-line, you first have set some environment variables. This is what the sourceme.sh and sourceme.csh scripts are for. The best way to do this is to source them automatically from one of the startup files (for example, .cshrc).
a | Determine which shell you are using. Most people use sh, csh, tcsh or bash. |
b | Modify your startup files:
Remember: replace <vlabdir> with the full directory name you obtained in step 1f. |
After you have modified your startup files, you have to bring the changes to effect. Logout and log back in. Now type the following atthe command line:
Remember: replace <vlabdir> with the full directory name you obtained in step 1f.
The VLAB Object Browser should open with the default OOFS database. If it does not, something went wrong. Go back through the installation steps and try again.
VLAB documentation can be found in the <vlabdir>/html-docs directory.
Please contact us through email if you have any questions:
vlab@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
The home page for VLAB is:
http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~pwp/bmv/vlab-for-linux/html-docs/index.html
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