This document describes the VAPOR installation process for pre-compiled binaries on UNIX. If you have not already done so, download an appropriate VAPOR image from the download site. Unless otherwise noted in the release notes below, pre-compiled binaries are built with compiler optimization enabled, and IDL support turned on. Sites requiring a different configuration will need to build VAPOR from source code.
The binary installation process for UNIX is comprised of three basic steps: 1) unpacking the distribution image, 2) running the installation script, and 3) setting up the user environment.
Unpack the compressed tar file containing VAPOR into a scratch workspace (e.g. /tmp) and change working directories to the distribution subdirectory. The following commands might be used to unpack VAPOR version 1.0 on a Linux x86_64 system, for example:
gunzip vapor-2.0.0-Linux_x86_64.tar.gz
tar xf vapor-2.0.0-Linux_x86_64.tar
cd vapor-2.0.0-Linux_x86_64
Next, run the vapor-install.csh installation script providing a single argument informing the script of where to install VAPOR. For example the command
./vapor-install.csh /usr/local/apps
would install VAPOR executables, libraries, and examples in the directory /usr/local/apps/vapor-version, where version is the current version number. For example: /usr/local/apps/vapor-2.0.0
The VAPOR suite of applications relies on a number of shared libraries and other dependencies. Users are required to execute a configuration script prior to running any VAPOR commands. For convenience it is advised that users place this command in their login script (.login for C shell or .profile for other shells). Once the variables are set in the login script, there is no need to run the environment script files for each session.
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C-shell derivative users (csh, tcsh) If you are a C-shell (csh, tcsh) user you must execute the following command prior to running any VAPOR utilities: source vapor_home/bin/vapor-setup.csh
where vapor_home is the root of the installation directory for VAPOR (e.g. /usr/local/apps/vapor-2.0.0) Bourne shell derivative users (ksh, bash, sh) If you are a Bourne shell (sh, bash, ksh) user you must execute the following command prior to running any VAPOR utilities: . vapor_home/bin/vapor-setup.sh
where vapor_home is the root of the installation directory for VAPOR (e.g. /usr/local/apps/vapor-2.0.0). Note the "." is the bourne shell command for sourcing a file. |
Only command line utilities are distributed: the VAPOR GUI is NOT included.
