Installation¶
GfxLauncher doesn’t come as a package (yet). Installation is done by unpacking the distribution and configuring the application using configuration files and environment variables.
Downloading¶
Latest version of the software can be found at:
Exracting source package¶
Unpack the distribution in a suitable location.
$ tar xvzf v0.9.3.tar.gz
Make sure the search path is added to this location.
Installing requirements¶
The requirements for GfxLauncher is a Python 3.x interpreter with the following additional packages:
PyQt 5.x
configparser
Disk layout¶
The installation of GfxLauncher requires directory locations to fully function:
Main installation directory, where the Python-software is installed. (User readable - Admin writable)
Script directory - (User readable - Admin writable)
Required directories for the Installation¶
The recommended way of installing GfxLauncher is to create a main directory, ondemand-dt, in which we place the launcher scripts as well as the configuration and run-scripts.
Directory | Description |
|
…/ondemand-dt/gfxlauncher |
Main installation directory of GfxLauncher |
…/ondemand-dt/etc |
Launcher configuration files. |
…/ondemand-dt/run |
Launcher run-scripts with launcher tags. |
Setting up a runtime environment¶
For the command line tools in the distribution to work the …/ondemand-dt/gfxlauncher directory must be added to the search path for all users. This can best be achieved by adding a profile.d script:
/etc/profile.d/ondemand-dt-00.sh:
#/bin/bash
export ONDEMAND_DT_DIR=/sw/pkg/gfxlauncher
export PATH=${ONDEMAND_DT_DIR}:$PATH