VisAD-in-a-Box:

To download VisAD-in-a-Box:

VisAD-in-a-Box

Note: This currently contains only the Solaris JDK.

To install VisAD-in-a-Box:

  1. If you've received an visad-in-a-box.tar file, run tar xvf visad-in-a-box.tar
  2. If you've received an visad-in-a-box.tar.gz file, run gzcat -c visad-in-a-box.tar | tar xvf -
  3. Move into the extracted visad-in-a-box distribution directory and run install_visad
  4. Answer the few installation questions, then wait for everything to finish installing.
  5. You can remove the visad-in-a-box distribution directory after the installation is complete.
Note: The cpush utility must be available in order to install on all nodes in a cluster.

To keep your visad.jar file up to date:

Simply run java visad.install.UpdateJar dir where dir is the directory in which you've installed your visad.jar file.

This will only update the local visad.jar file if it is older than the distributed visad.jar file.

To create a new VisAD-in-a-Box distribution:

  1. Create a distribution directory (in this example, the distribution directory will be named visad-in-a-box.)
  2. Copy visad/install/install_visad to the visad-in-a-box directory
  3. Copy a visad.jar file to the visad-in-a-box directory.
  4. If you want to include Java executables, you can do either of the following:
  5. In the directory above the visad-in-a-box directory, package everything up with tar cvf visad-in-a-box.tar visad-in-a-box (or whatever you've named your distribution directory.)