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<H2><A NAME="s1">1. Installation</A></H2>
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<P>This assumes you have the July 2001 release (version 0.6 or later) of
<B>partiview</B>, not the earlier "<B>gview</B>" release that was described
in earlier versions of this document. We keep copies of some Linux support
files (Mesa, FLTK) on our current
<A HREF="http://www.astro.umd.edu/nemo/amnh">http://www.astro.umd.edu/nemo/amnh</A> website. Although
more current versions of support libraries may be available, they
may not have been tested out. Note that
this current development release is only documented for work under Linux
(redhat 6.2 and 7.1 have been tested),
although we expect it to work for at least SGI and maybe Solaris too.
<P>partiview needs two libaries to compile: OpenGL (or MESA) for the
drawing operations, and FLTK for the window makeup.
<P>First make sure <CODE>Mesa</CODE> is installed, for <CODE>redhat6.2</CODE>
there are rpm files available. Check if you have the following:
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% 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
<P>You should have both installed. Some packages will use <CODE>libMesaGL</CODE>, others
<CODE>libGL</CODE>. The <CODE>configure</CODE> script (see below)
should take care of the two possible options.
<A HREF="http://mesa3d.sourceforge.org">http://mesa3d.sourceforge.org</A><P>Redhat packages: (part of powertools I believe)
<P> Mesa3D is under continuous development. As of this writing the
stable release is 3.4.2, but it has not been tested with the current partiview release.
Redhat 7.1 comes with Mesa-3.4 and also works with partiview.
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<H2><A NAME="ss1.2">1.2 FLTK</A>
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<P>Also make sure <CODE>fltk</CODE> is installed. If you got my version, do this (as
root)
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% locate libfltk.a
% locate Fl_Slider.h
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<P>(you only need it if you want to recompile the program at some point,
not if you just want to run it)
<P>Homepage:
<A HREF="http://www.fltk.org/">http://www.fltk.org/</A><P>Redhat packages:
<A HREF="http://www.cs.cornell.edu/nogin/RPM/fltk-devel.html">http://www.cs.cornell.edu/nogin/RPM/fltk-devel.html</A><P>Find rpms:
<A HREF="http://rpmfind.net">http://rpmfind.net</A><P>
<P> FLTK is under continuous development. As of this writing the
latest release is 1.0.10, but has not been tested with the current partiview release.
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<P>Extract the tarball, and install the program from within the
<CODE>src</CODE> directory:
% cd partiview-0.6/src
% make depend (might need to make new local dependancies)
% make partiview (should not have to edit Makefile anymore)
<P>Since version 0.5 <CODE>partiview</CODE> is under CVS control, and occasionally we
will stamp out a new release when we deem it stable. Anonymous or read-only
CVS access is also offered. Currently the CVS repository machine is
<CODE>cvs.astro.umd.edu</CODE> and you will need to setup your developers account with
Peter (<CODE>teuben@astro.umd.edu</CODE>). Here's a sample session with some commonly
used CVS commands:
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setenv CVSROOT :pserver:myname@cvs.astro.umd.edu:/home/cvsroot
setenv CVS_RSH ssh (not needed for pserver access though)
cvs login (only needed once, and only for pserver type access)
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
emacs partibrains.c # edit some files
cvs update # if so, update your sandbox again, resolve conflicts
cvs commit # and commit your changes
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