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- (by Michael Froehlich, July 15, 1996)
-
- Platform Requirements and Installation
- ======================================
-
- Platform Requirements
- ---------------------
-
- daVinci V2.0.1 is available for UNIX platforms which are supported by X-Window
- (X11) and the Tcl/Tk toolkit. At the moment there are binary distributions
- for the following operating systems:
-
- * Sun Solaris 2.x for SPARC
- * SunOS 4.1.x
- * HP-UX
- * IBM AIX
- * SGI IRIX
- * DEC UNIX (aka OSF/1)
- * DEC Ultrix
- * Linux
-
- If you miss a UNIX platform where daVinci is not available for at the
- moment, then feel free to contact the developers for asking about a port.
- The source code of daVinci is not available.
-
- The minimal hardware requirement for working seriously with daVinci is a
- UNIX workstation with a performance comparable to a Sun SPARCstation 10 or
- better (i.e. at least 1 SPECint95) and 32MB RAM. For PC's, an Intel 486 and
- 16MB or better is recommened. It is possible that daVinci will work on
- slower configurations or with fewer memory, but in this case the performance
- may be disappointing. If you have problems with not enough memory (daVinci
- will crash with a X Error: BadAlloc message as soon as no more memory is
- available), you should try to switch off the pixmap cache by starting daVinci
- with option -nocache.
-
- The software requirement for daVinci is an X-Window environment. The user
- interface is implemented in Tcl/Tk but it is not required to install Tcl/Tk
- in order to use daVinci. The system has been tested with the following X11
- window managers:
-
- * dtwm (CDE)
- * mwm (Motif)
- * olwm/olvwm (OpenWindows)
- * fvwm/fvwm2
- * ctwm
- * twm
-
-
- Installation
- ------------
-
- Overview:
-
- 1. Get daVinci by ftp
- 2. Use gunzip, tar -xf
- 3. Set $DAVINCIHOME to the daVinci directory
- 4. Be sure to have Netscape 2.0 or higher for the online documentation
- 5. Start daVinci
- 6. Read and accept the license
-
- Detail:
-
- After downloading the daVinci distribution for the particular UNIX platform
- by ftp, the retrieved file need to be uncompressed with command "gunzip
- <file>" and afterwards extracted by using command "tar -xf <file>". This
- will create a directory daVinci_V2.0 in your current directory. To place
- daVinci at another location, you have to move the daVinci_V2.0 directory
- completly to some other directory of your filesystem.
-
- Before starting daVinci, you have to set environment variable $DAVINCIHOME
- to the absolute file name of the daVinci_V2.0 directory on your computer.
- daVinci needs to know this location to find resources, e.g. the online
- documentation or the graph editor. For example, if you have installed
- daVinci in your home directory /home/me, then in a csh the environment
- variable can be set using the following command:
-
- setenv DAVINCIHOME /home/me/daVinci_V2.0
-
- You should make this setting permanent by putting the command into the
- .cshrc file which is usually in your home directory. The setting policy may
- be different if you are using another UNIX shell than csh. Finally, make
- sure that you have installed Netscape 1.1 or higher to work with the online
- documentation. For the search engine, written in Java, you need to have
- at least version 2.0 of the Netscape browser.
-
- After moving to the daVinci_V2.0 directory with 'cd', you can start the system
- by entering command 'daVinci' in the shell. For the first time a user is
- starting daVinci, a window with the license agreement will appear. Please
- read the terms of the agreement carefully. You can get the full text of the
- license by pressing the 'Show License' button. The license text is also
- available in file LICENSE in the daVinci_V2.0 directory. By confirming the
- license window, you accept and agree to become bound by the terms of this
- license. Please press the 'Quit' button in the license agreement window, if
- you do not agree to this license.
-
- By confirming the license agreement, a notification window will appear to
- ask the user about sending an e-mail to the daVinci project. This
- notification is optional. Afterwards, daVinci can be used and Netscape will
- be started "automagically" to show the introduction page of the online
- documentation.
-
- -End-
-