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1. Installation

This assumes you have the October 2000 release (version 0.1 or later) of partiview, not the earlier "gview" release that was described in earlier versions of this document. We keep copies of some support files (Mesa, FLTK) on our initial http://www.astro.umd.edu/nemo/amnh website. Note that this current development release is only documented for work under Linux, although we expect it to work for at least SGI and maybe Solaris too.

1.1 MESA/OpenGL

First make sure Mesa is installed, for redhat6.2 there are rpm files available. Check if you have the following:


       % rpm -qa | grep Mesa
       Mesa-3.2-2
       Mesa-devel-3.2-2
       % rpm -i Mesa-3.2-2.i686.rpm Mesa-devel-3.2-2.i686.rpm

You should have both installed. Some packages will use libMesaGL, others libGL. The configure script (see below) should take care of the two possible options.

Homepage: http://mesa3d.sourceforge.org

Redhat packages: (part of powertools I believe)

1.2 FLTK

Also make sure fltk is installed. If you got my version, do this (as root)


       % locate libfltk.a 
       % locate Fl_Slider.h

       % cd <where-ever>/fltk-1.0.9
       % make install
  

(you only need it if you want to recompile the program at some point, not if you just want to run it)

Homepage: http://www.fltk.org/

Redhat packages: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/nogin/RPM/fltk-devel.html

1.3 partiview

Extract the tarball, and install the program from within the src directory:


       % tar zxf partiview-0.5.tar.gz

       % cd partiview-0.5/src
       % make clean                (if you really must compile a new executable)
       % ./configure               (GNU autoconf toolset to ease installation)
       % make depend               (might need to make new local dependancies)
       % make partiview            (should not have to edit Makefile anymore)

1.4 CVS

Since partiview-0.3 is under CVS control, and occasionally we will stamp out a new release when we deem it stable. Anonymous CVS may also be offered, but this is not currently enabled. Currently the CVS repository machine is akash.astro.umd.edu and you will need to setup your developers account with Peter (teuben@astro.umd.edu). Here's a sample session with some commonly used CVS commands:


 setenv CVSROOT   :pserver:pteuben@akash.astro.umd.edu:/home/cvsroot
 setenv CVSEDITOR emacs
 setenv CVS_RSH   ssh           (not needed for pserver access though)

 cvs login                      (only needed once, and only for pserver type access)

 mkdir ~/cvsstuff
 cd ~/cvsstuff
 cvs checkout partiview              # get a new local sandbox to work in, or

 cvs -n -q update partiview          # check if others had made any changes
 cvs update partiview                # if so, update your sandbox and/or resolve conflicts

 cd partiview/src
 ./configure
 emacs partibrains.c                 # edit some files
 make all                            # compile the program
 ./partiview                         # test the program
 emacs partipanel.cc                 # edit another file
 make all                            # check if it still compiles

 cvs -n -q update                    # check if anybody else made changes
 cvs update                          # if so, update your sandbox again, resolve conflicts

 cvs commit                          # and commit your changes
 cd ../..

 cvs release partiview               # if you want to release and remove this sandbox


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