Installation (ViX)

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This page contains the instructions to install the ViX package.

Contents 1 Platform 2 Prerequisite 2.1 R 2.1.1 R :: GDD 2.2 METRo 2.3 Python :: rpy 3 ViX installation 3.1 Python path 3.2 Translation files

[edit] Platform

ViX has been designed to run under GNU/Linux operating system on a x86 processor.

[edit] Prerequisite

To use ViX, you will need the following software packages.

[edit] R

You must have R on your system:

• R language

Remember (from INSTALL.UNIX of python::rpy package): First of all, you must check that you have built R with the configure option '--enable-R-shlib', in order to make R as a shared library. If not, the following steps should be enough:
<go to the R source directory>

make distclean

./configure --enable-R-shlib

make

make install

[edit] R :: GDD

You'll need the R binding to the GD library. Usually, GDD is installed by default on the GNU/Linux system.

• R :: GDD

To install the GDD package with R, execute the following command:

R CMD INSTALL GDD_0.1-8.tar.gz

[edit] METRo

Install the METRo software and all it's dependencies:

• METRo
• python :: libxml2

The ViX package works only with the libxml2 package, not the PyXML. See the notes corresponding to this package in the METRo installation article.

[edit] Python :: rpy

The graphics of ViX are created with the R language. Since ViX his written in the python language, the R binding for python is needed:

• python :: rpy

[edit] ViX installation

[edit] Python path

The python interpreter must know where to find the python METRo files. The variable PYTHONPATH is used for that:

export PYTHONPATH=metro_root_directory/src/frontend/external_lib/:\
 metro_root_directory/src/frontend/:$PYTHONPATH

[edit] Translation files

The translation files of METRo must be known to ViX. To do that, you have to go in the directory src of ViX and do the following command:

cd path_vix_root/src
ln -s path_metro_root/src/frontend/locale/ locale

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