After Downloading ADF2008.01 - Linux and UNIX

Instructions below are intended as a quick start guide for the impatient who want to install a binary-only ADF distribution. Please refer to the Installation manual for step by step installation instructions. The manual also covers installation of the source code.

Step 1: Unzip and untar the downloaded file

Untar the binary files (substitute the real tgz file name):

gzip -cd adf2008.01.bin.tgz | tar xf -

Step 2: Set the environment variables for the ADF package.

We recommend that you define the following environment variables in your shell startup script (.cshrc, .login, .zshenv, ...):

# Environment variables with typical values (you may need different values) using C-shell syntax.
# Add these to your .cshrc

setenv ADFHOME $HOME/adf2008.01            # here $HOME is the directory 
					   # where you unpacked the downloaded files
setenv ADFBIN $ADFHOME/bin                 # the directory for run scripts and program binaries
setenv ADFRESOURCES $ADFHOME/atomicdata    # the location of the ADF database directory
setenv SCMLICENSE $ADFHOME/license.txt     # full path name of your SCM license file (when you get it)
setenv SCM_TMPDIR /scratch                 # full path of the scratch directory you wish to use

In case of bash shell add the environment variables to your .bashrc. Bash shell syntax example:
export ADFHOME=$HOME/adf2008.01

All systems: Generate license information

To run the programs successfully you need a license file, which we create for you.
To do so we need some technical information that the program generates.

# generate license information

$ADFBIN/dirac info

and follow the instructions (send us the information just printed). In principle, you will need to send us the information from all machines on which you intend to use the programs from the ADF package.

Finally...

After receiving your license file, save it somewhere and set the $SCMLICENSE environment variable pointing to it. If everything is working, you can now remove the tar files.

rm *.tgz

Read the installation manual

Read the Installation manual for more information. It contains advise on how to optimize your ADF installation for your particular situation. You will also need to read it to configure your installation properly for parallel execution.