Installing Demeter

Linux installation instructions

• Generic Unix instructions which should work on any Linux distribution and most other unixes.

• Getting Demeter installed on Scientific Linux

• Compiling a SWIG wrapper for perl with Module Build

Windows

• Most users will want to download the installer package. This will live happily alongside an installation of the old versions of Athena and Artemis.

  Windows installer package

  Go to https://github.com/bruceravel/demeter/downloads and download the file demeter-with-strawberry-perl-r#.exe where # is the current release number.

  Notes

  • After downloading that file, double click to launch the installer and answer all the questions.

  • After a crash, each program writes a log file in %APPDATA%\demeter. This file should be submitted with a bug report.

    • On Windows XP, %APPDATA% = C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Application Data\

    • On Windows 7, %APPDATA = C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming

  • If you already have Perl installed on your Windows computer, you may not want to install this package -- contact Bruce.

• Notes on using the Demeter with Strawberry Perl package

• Compiling Ifeffit using MinGW and MSYS for use with Strawberry.

• Getting Demeter to work on Windows using Strawberry Perl

Mac OSX

• No native installer, but the software will run under Parallels. For notes on doing this, see here.

• See http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.wxperl.users/2011/03/msg7938.html and similar threads from around that time.

Miscellany

• Demeter/BuildingFityk : My notes on building Fityk and the Fityk SWIG wrapper