LC Installation Guidelines

LC is distributed as a gzipped tar-format archive file. Before proceeding, go to the installation directory (the directory into which you'd like to install lc). This may be your home directory, or possibly a common application directory like /usr or /opt/apps.

To unarchive the distribution, use a command like:

gzcat lc.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
This procedure creates an lc directory, which contains the distribution contents.

The contents is organized into the subdirectories described below. The bin directory is the most important, because it contains the LC executables. The other directories give supplementary information for integrating LC into a Unix environment.

bin - the executables
If using the Modules ** package, then see below. Otherwise, add a command like
    setenv PATH $PATH:LC_INSTALL_DIR/bin
(where LC_INSTALL_DIR is the installation directory for LC) to your .login file.

man - command-level documentation
If using the Modules ** package, then see below. Otherwise, add a command like
    setenv MANPATH $MANPATH:LC_INSTALL_DIR/man
(where LC_INSTALL_DIR is the installation directory for LC) to your .login file.

modulefiles - module configuration files
This information can be used by the Modules ** package to set up the user environment before using LC. Typical usage is:
    module use LC_INSTALL_DIR/modulefiles
    module load lc
(where LC_INSTALL_DIR is the installation directory for LC).

app-defaults - X Window System configuration files
If you wish to override the default application resources for LC, you can modify these files, and use them by adding a command like
    setenv XAPPLRESDIR LC_INSTALL_DIR/app-defaults
(where LC_INSTALL_DIR is the installation directory for LC) to your .login file.
(** Modules is a Unix software package for user environment management, but is not included with LC)


Last modified Thu Mar 05 14:23:41 CST 1998