Daylight Summer School 1998, July 28-30, St. John's College, Santa Fe, NM

NOTE: Due to limited local disk space at Summer School 1998, we will not be able to install 4.61 or large databases on the user workstations. If you wish to complete this exercise, ask the instructor about using the server machine.

Daylight Worksheet - Installing the Daylight distribution

The Daylight distribution is supplied as a tar-gzip archive. Thus to unpack and install the archive, "gzip -d" and tar must be used.

  1. Insert the Daylight software CDROM (4.51 or 4.61). The operating system should automatically mount the CDROM.
  2. Find the CDROM directory. Normally on SGIs it is /CDROM, on Suns it is a directory under /cdrom. Identify the desired archive, either the "heavy" or "light" package.
  3. Find or create an installation directory and cd to it. Unpack and install the distribution as follows (modify path as appropriate):
    gzip -dc /CDROM/day451-sgi5-lite.tar.gz | tar xvf - 
    


Daylight Worksheet - Installing a Daylight database


Daylight databases are supplied as tar-gzip archives. Thus to unpack and install an archive, "gzip -d" and tar must be used.

  1. Insert the database CDROM. The operating system should automatically mount the CDROM.
  2. Find the CDROM directory. Normally on SGIs it is /CDROM, on Suns it is a directory under /cdrom. Identify the desired archive.
  3. cd to the desired installation directory. Unpack and install the database as follows (modify path as appropriate):
    cd $DY_THORDB
    gzip -dc /CDROM/lotadata.tar.gz | tar xvf - 
    

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