SOFTWARE INSTALLATION FOR OFFLINE USE

System Requirements

The lamps software can be installed on any (recent) Linux computer. Insallation for offline use does not require the root password unless a required library is missing.

The libraries listed below are required. The version numbers are not important. So gtk+-1.2.10-31 is as good as gtk+-1.2.10-33.

  1. The C compiler gcc (example: gcc-3.4.3-22.1 or compat-gcc-32-g77-3.2.3-47.fc4)
  2. The Fortran compiler g77 (example: gcc-g77-3.4.3-22.1).
    Lamps also works with f95; in this case replace g77 by f95 editing the Makefile.
  3. The graphics environment gtk+ (example: gtk+-1.2.10-33)
  4. The graphics compiler gtk+-devel (example: gtk+-devel-1.2.10-33 or gtk+-develop-1.2.10-39.i386.rpm)

The command rpm -qa|less can be used to check. If any of these components is missing you must install it from the installation CDs. You need the root password for doing this.

Choosing a directory

Lets say you have your account in /home/name then you could create a directory /home/name/lamps and install lamps there and you could create home/name/lamps/help and unpack the help files there.
  1. Download the file lampsDDMMYY.tgz into /home/name/lamps.
  2. Unpack it with the command tar zxvf lampsDDMMYY.tgz
  3. Compile it with the command make. There should be no warnings or errors. Now the command ./lamps will launch the program (if you edit your .bash_profile to have PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:./ then the command lamps will work).
  4. Create the directory /home/name/lamps/help. Download the file help.tgz here and unpack it. (tar zxvf help.tgz).Now you can get help by clicking help.htm. (You wont be able to launch help from wihin lamps since it expects the directory /home/lamps/help)

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