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1.1 Installation Overview

Installation Under Windows

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Figure 1: SVS Setup Program

Double-click on the self-extracting executable (SVS-Win32-x.x.x.exe). (The x.x.x will be a version number, e.g. SVS-Win32-7.0.0.exe.) It will open up an install dialog screen.

The default is to install the software in C:\Program Files\Golden Helix SVS.

Under Windows, you also have the option of adding a SVS program icon to your desktop, a Quick Launch icon, and having SVS available from the Start Menu.

Installation Under Linux
  1. Download the installer to a convenient user directory (preferably the parent directory where you would like to install SVS).
  2. Open a terminal and navigate to the directory where the installer is located.
  3. Run the installer with the program sh or bash. For example.

    ~/Programs/> sh SVS-Lin32-7.0.0.sh

  4. You may accept the default install location of ‘pwd‘/SVS or type in a different directory.
  5. After you hit enter, the program will launch and start GoldenUpdate to activate the program on your machine.

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Figure 2: Golden Update Window

Because of the difficulty of a program knowing where it’s application directory is located under Linux, the install script sets up the program SVS to be a wrapper that launches the native program with a proper full path and dynamic link library information.

You may create a symbolic link to the SVS program and even put it on your path so that it can be launched from any directory. This also allows you to run scripts from various directories.

Because of this launch script design, you can not simply move the install directory to a different location from where it was originally set up without re-running the install script and specifying the new directory to the installer.

NOTE:

  • Linux distributions have varying sets of libraries of various versions. We have tried to package SVS to be as widely usable as possible but you may still run into library issues on certain distributions. See the LinuxFaq.txt file in the application directory for step-by-step instructions for troubleshooting any error messages you receive when starting SVS.
Installation Under Mac OS X
  1. Download the SVS archive for Mac to a convenient user directory.
  2. The bundle is a .tar.gz archive file, and should unarchive by opening it once it is downloaded.
  3. Once extracted, move the resulting Golden Helix SVS folder to an appropriate location such as the Applications folder.
  4. Go into the Golden Helix SVS folder and run the SVS App. The program will launch and start GoldenUpdate to activate the program on your machine.

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