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| 1 | +## General |
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| 3 | +* You should use a network installation for workstations and servers if at all possible. NFS, SMB and AFP all work for sharing a single installation among multiple machines. The decreased admin overhead, bandwidth and disk savings of sharing a single installation is a significant benefit. |
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| 5 | +## Linux |
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| 6 | +Information on configuring 3D stereo can be found [here](stereo) |
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| 8 | +* All Linux machines need installations of a recent version (6.17+) of csh/tcsh. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and other recent distributions usually have an up to date version. There are RPMs for Red Hat/CentOS/Scientific Linux 5.x in the software tree in the architecture specific directories: |
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| 10 | + /programs/i386-linux/system/RPMs |
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| 11 | + /programs/x86_64-linux/system/RPMs |
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| 13 | +* SELinux must be disabled. |
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| 15 | +* 64-bit machines need a number of 32-bit compatibility packages installed **even when using the 64-bit software branch**. This is due to a number of binary-only and legacy packages that are only available as 32-bit applications. Additional fonts for Tcl/Tk, Motif and Xview applications are also encouraged. |
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| 17 | +Packages for RHEL 6, and 7 and compatible machines: |
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| 19 | + yum install glibc.i686 libgcc.i686 libX11.i686 libXaw.i686 libXext.i686 ncurses.i686 \ |
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| 20 | + redhat-lsb.i686 xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi \ |
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| 21 | + xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi xorg-x11-fonts-misc libXScrnSaver |
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| 24 | +* The same 32-bit requirement applies for 64-bit Debian and Ubuntu machines. This is supported via the [Multiarch](https///wiki.debian.org/Multiarch/HOWTO) system. You'll need at least the following packages to run most of the software. Please email us if you discover we have left some out. |
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| 25 | +`apt-get install libc6-i386 lsb tcsh gawk libjpeg62 curl libx11-6:i386 libxext6:i386` |
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| 27 | +## Mac OS X |
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| 28 | +Information on configuring 3D stereo can be found [here](stereo) |
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| 30 | +* Prior to OS X 10.8, the stock X11 has better compatibility than the Xquartz development version available from MacOSForge. With the OS X 10.8 release, X11 is no longer included by Apple, and you'll need to install the latest Xquartz version offered on the MacOSForge site to run X11-based applications. |
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| 32 | +## Laptops |
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| 34 | +* You can create a local installation to take along with you. |
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| 35 | +http://www.sbgrid.org/wiki/laptopinstall |