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**** VEGA Unix/Linux Installation Notes ****
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* WARNING: The installation procedure was changed.



1. Unpack the package using the following two commands:

     gzip -d Vega_XX_MyOS.tar.gz
     tar -xvf Vega_XX_MyOS.tar

   If you have GNU tar, you can even do it in one step only:

     tar Zxvf Vega_XX_MyOS.tar.gz

Please note that the pathway where the archive has been unpacked,
is the real installation pathway.

2. Edit your shell start-up script (e.g. .cshrc for csh or tcsh,
   .bashrc for GNU bash) in order to set the environment variable
   VEGADIR to the installation pathway. For csh/tcsh shell, you
   must type:

    setenv VEGADIR <INSTALLATION_PATH>
    setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH <INSTALLATION_PATH>
    
   For sh/bash:
   
    VEGADIR=<INSTALLATION_PATH>
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<INSTALLATION_PATH>
    export VEGADIR
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

   The LD_LIBRARY_PATH is requeired to inform your system where are
   the dynamic libraries needed by VEGA. Its strongly recommended
   to add the installation directory pathway in the command search
   variable <path>, defined in the shell startup script.
   
   For example, if you installed VEGA in the /usr/local/bin/Vega
   directory, you must set the environment variables as follow
   (csh/tcsh):
   
     setenv VEGADIR /usr/local/bin/Vega
     setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/local/bin/Vega
   
   or (sh/bash): 

    VEGADIR=/usr/local/bin/Vega
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/bin/Vega
    export VEGADIR
    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

3. Type the command:

     chmod 755 $VEGADIR/vega

   to set the file permissions.

4. As option, edit the <INSTALLATION_PATH>/Data/prefs file at the
   item <LANGUAGE> to select your preferred language. The automatic
   language selection isn't supported with Unix operating systems.

