[Ifeffit] Regarding Demeter

[Bruce Ravel]

On Monday, August 29, 2011 03:48:26 pm you wrote:
> Dear Bruce,
> I have been struggling to install the any of the demeter or horae. I have
> tried so many things but not able to install.
> I have installed PGPLOT, IFEFTIT already on my computer (Ubuntu 10.04,
> intel i686).
> There are so many different version available and I have tried many of
> them.
> I need your help and word of guidance. Let me know the more straight
> forward way of doing it.
> I would be using it in my research on edge spectroscopy.

Rajesh,

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First off, you should know that "horae" is the version of the codes
that has been out for years.  "Demeter" is the new version which is
under development.  Demeter is better than horae in almost every way,
but, like all software under development, it's not guaranteed to work
as advertised.  That said, I use Demeter for all my own work and
many others have begun using it.



If something stable is more to your liking, Carlo Segre has built
installation packages for horae.  Use your package manager to install
it.  If a search for "horae" turns up nothing, add the appropriate
repository (I think 10.04 == Lucid) from:

  http://debian-xray.iit.edu/

to your package manager.  If you have never done this before, consult

  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu

Once you have done that, you should be able to simply install "horae"
and have all the dependencies met.




If you want to use the newer, fancier, but not-yet-stable code, follow
the instructions at:

   http://cars9.uchicago.edu/ifeffit/Demeter/InstallDemeterOnUnixWithGit

Follow these instructions to the letter.  Don't improvise unless you
know what you are doing.  It will take you a while to get all the
dependencies built.  Be patient -- once you are set up, updating is
quick and easy.

B


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