Good day all,
It's been quite awhile since I've posted in this good 'ol forum.
Anyway, I'm currently working on installing/setting up an astronomy package called MIDAS. They have a small explanation on their site explaining how to do their procedure, but it is a bit fuzzy to me at the moment.
It isn't a "standard" installation like most programs. It's a binary distro that needs to be linked... sorta.
The page is:
http://nnsa.dl.ac.uk/MIDAS/download/base_Linux.html
And if you scroll down to the part that says:
Having fetched this file you should uncompress... This is where the actual explanation starts.
I've downloaded the
base package and the
linux package as suggested. So I read the instructions to say:
...after un-zip and un-taring the base package, change to that dir and then do the same with the linux package which I've already done.
It then proceeds to say:
Code:
you should as a minimum set the environment variable MIDASBASE to the path
of the MIDAS_base_xxxxxx directory. The default value assigned by the software
to the environment variable MIDASBASE if it does not already exist is /MIDAS.
$MIDASBASE will be used in the instructions following to refer to the base of
the software installation.
This is where I'm getting fuzzy. I cannot for the life of me remember how to '
set the environment variable MIDASBASE to the path of the MIDAS_base_xxxxxx directory'. Actually, what I did was added it to the PATH environment via the
PATH=... followed by
export PATH
It then says:
Code:
The MIDAS package requires that the directory $MIDASBASE/experiments is
writeable. If you have installed the MIDAS package in a read only disc partition
then $MIDASBASE/experiments could be a link to a directory in a writeable
partition. All users of the MIDAS package will require write access to the
directory and its contents. The directory name $MIDASBASE/experiments may be
replaced by the environment variable MIDASEXPBASE. If only the MIDAS base
package is being used or sharing of experimental information between users is
not required then MIDASEXPBASE could have the value ~/experiments - i.e. be
local to the user.
Well, the directory
is writeable, so that isn't an issue. (as far as I can tell)
And FYI, it's all being done on my lappy, so there is no need for me to worry about a write access to other users or any read only partitions. I'm the only one using this lappy, so I think it should be a bit easy on that aspect.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
(sorry for using CODE blocks... it just seemed easier to format it that way that with alot of bold text everywhere)
Thx.
L8rz
