SATAN Installation

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Installation

Prerequisites

Minimum prerequisites to install and run are:

A supported platform
4MB free memory
15MB free disk space
a web browser (to read the docs)
the uncompress or zcat and the tar utilities

Installation on UNIX systems

It is recommended to keep all SATAN-related files in a single directory. Assume the installation directory is SATAN. Then:

```
cd SATAN
```
Download the tar'ed and compressed file, e.g. 'SATAN.<os>.<yymmr>.tar.Z' or 'SATAN.<os>.<yymmr>.tar.gzip' where <os> stands for the operating system, e.g. AIX or Linux,
and <yymmr> denotes some version number, e.g. 0112c
unpack it, e.g.:
```
zcat SATAN.AIX.0112c.tar.Z | tar -xvf -
```
(you might also use separate calls of uncompress and tar)
Define the shell variable $SATAN to point to the SATAN directory:
```
export SATAN=`pwd`
```
This is the quick and dirty way. To be permanent you must define the shell variable in your login script (e.g. .profile if you use the ksh)
Also, upgrade your command path:
```
export PATH=$SATAN/bin:$PATH
```

This should be sufficient. As a test you could run SATAN with a tutorial

satan
tut fleg

As of the 0112g release, versioning is supported, i.e. in addition to the normal version selected by $SATAN, $SATANNEW, $SATANOLD and $SATANTEST may point to different directories and are selected by the new, old and test keywords, respectively, of the various shell scripts. Note, however, that also the PATH variable should reflect the chosen version.

Installation on AmigaOS

It is recommended to keep all SATAN-related files in a single directory. Assume the installation directory is work:SATAN. Then:

```
cd SATAN
```
Download the self-extracting archive file 'SATAN.amiga.<yymmr>.run' where <yymmr> denotes some version number, e.g. 0112g
unpack by simply invoking:
```
satan.amiga.0112g.run
```
Assign and define the environment variable SATAN to point to the SATAN directory:
```
assign SATAN: work:SATAN
setenv SATAN  work:SATAN
```
This is the quick and dirty way. To be permanent you must put these definitions in your startup procedure, e.g. s:user-startup
Also, upgrade your command path:
```
PATH SATAN:C add
```

This should be sufficient. As a test you could run SATAN with a tutorial

satan
tut fleg

As of the 0112g release, versioning is supported, i.e. in addition to the normal version selected by SATAN:, SATANNEW:, SATANOLD: and SATANTEST: may point to different directories and are selected by the new, old and test keywords, respectively, of the various shell scripts. Note, however, that also the PATH definition should reflect the chosen version.

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Last updated: M.Kraemer@gsi.de, 9-Nov-2005

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