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- NOTE: This file is autogenerated from the Geomview manual.
- For references to things not in this file, see the manual.
- The manual is distributed in the "doc" subdirectory.
-
-
- Installing the NeXT Binary Distribution
- =======================================
-
-
- 1. If you have just obtained a copy of the NeXTStep binary distribution
- (file `geomview-next.tar'), you can unpack it by double-clicking on
- it in the Workspace. This will open up a File Viewer panel showing,
- among other things, a NeXT Installer package called `Geomview.pkg'.
-
-
- 2. The first thing you should do is double-click on `Geomview.pkg' to
- invoke the NeXT Installer. You will be asked where you want to install
- it; typically it should go in `/LocalApps' or in `~/Apps' in
- your home directory. You should now be able to run Geomview and make
- use of most of its features by double-clicking on the installed
- `Geomview.app' icon.
-
- 3. There are some aspects of the installation, however, that the NeXT
- Installer can't handle. In order to fully install Geomview so that you
- can use all of its features, you should run the `install' script in
- the `Geomview.app' directory. In particular, you must go through
- this installation procedure in order to use Geomview to display
- Mathematica graphics.
-
- To run the `install' script you can open `Geomview.app' in the
- Workspace by selecting it and picking `File->Open as Folder' from
- the Workspace menu. This will pop up a File Viewer panel showing the
- contents of `Geomview.app'. Scroll down to the file named
- `install', and double-click on it. This will open a terminal
- window and run the script in that window. Alternately, you can open a
- terminal window yourself, cd to `Geomview.app', and run
- `install' there.
-
- The `install' script does the installation after asking you several
- questions about where you want to install the various components of
- Geomview. After running the `install' script, Geomview is
- completely installed. If in the future you move `Geomview.app' to
- some other location you should run `install' again.
-
- 4. This step is optional. Geomview's example data files are in the
- `Geomview.app/data' directory. If you are on a network with both
- SGI workstations and NeXTStep workstations, and you want to install
- Geomview to run on both, you can save disk space by having the two
- installations share a common data directory. To do this, decide on a
- location for the data directory and copy it there if it isn't there
- already (a good choice would be to leave it in the `$GEOMROOT'
- directory in your SGI Geomview installation). Then edit the file
- `Geomview.app/CONFIG.gv' to change the setting of the variable
- `GEOMVIEW_DATA' to point to this directory (there are comments in
- the file telling you what to do). You can then remove the data
- directory from `Geomview.app'.
-
-
- To run geomview, double-click on `Geomview.app' from the workspace,
- or type `open Geomview.app' from the appropriate directory, or type
- `geomview' from a shell window.
-
- More Geomview documentation is in the `Geomview.app/doc'
- subdirectory. In particular, a copy of the manual is there.
-
- The `install' script puts copies of the files in
- `Geomview.app/bin/next' and `Geomview.app/man' into the
- directories you specified for executables and man pages, respectively.
- Once you have done the installation you can cut down one the disk space
- required by Geomview by removing all the files in these directories,
- since copies have been installed elsewhere. You should first test that
- your installed Geomview works properly because once you remove these
- files from their distribution directories you will not be able to do the
- installation again.
-
-
- Details of the NeXTStep Binary Installation
- -------------------------------------------
-
- Other than the installation of the `Geomview.app' directory, the
- installation details of the NeXTStep binary distribution are the same as
- for the SGI distribution, *Note SGI Binary Detail::. Note that the
- directory referred to in the SGI distribution as `$GEOMROOT'
- is the `Geomview.app' directory in the NeXTStep distribution.
-
-
- Details of the SGI Binary Installation
- --------------------------------------
-
- The `install' script should be self-explanatory; just run it and
- answer the questions. This section gives some details for system
- administrators and other users who may want to know more about the
- installation.
-
- The installation is actually done by `make'; the `install'
- script queries the user for the settings of the following `make'
- variables and then invokes `make install'.
-
-
- `GEOMROOT':
- the absolute pathname of the Geomview root directory. The
- `geomview' shell script, which is what users invoke to run
- Geomview, uses this to set various environment variables that Geomview
- needs. It is very important that this be an *absolute* pathname
- --- i.e. it should start with a '/'.
-
- `BINDIR':
- a directory where executable files are installed. The `geomview'
- shell script goes here, as well as various other auxiliary programs that
- can be used in conjunction with `geomview'. This should be a
- directory that is on users' `$path'. These auxiliary programs are
- distributed in the `$GEOMROOT/bin/sgi' directory; if you specify
- this directory for `BINDIR', they are left in that directory.
-
- `MANDIR':
- a directory where Unix manual pages are installed. These are
- distributed in the `$GEOMROOT/man' subdirectory; if you specify
- this directory for `MANDIR', they are left in that directory.
-
- `MMAPACKAGEDIR':
- a directory where Mathematica packages are installed. This should be a
- directory that Mathematica searches for packages that it loads; you can
- see what directories your Mathematica searches by looking at the value
- of the `$Path' variable in a Mathematica session. The
- installation process will install some packages there which allow you to
- use Geomview to display Mathematica graphics. These packages are
- distributed in the `$GEOMROOT/mathematica' subdirectory; if you
- specify this directory for `MMAPACKAGEDIR', or if you specify the
- empty string for `MMAPACKAGEDIR', the packages are left in that
- directory. For more details about the way these Mathematica packages
- connect to Geomview, *Note Package Installation::.
-
-
-