workstation_setup.md
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## General
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-- 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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+- There are significant benefits to installing software on a network filesystem, if available. NFS, SMB or AFP are all options for sharing a single software installation among multiple machines. Network installations have less administrative overhead, bandwidth and significant disk savings over a local installation.
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+Local installations are an option using our Installation Manager. [Command line and GUI options are available.](client_downloads.md)
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## Linux
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-Information on configuring 3D stereo can be found [here](stereo)
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+- libGLU is required for many structure visualization programs ( COOT, PyMOL, IMOD, Chimera, etc). This library is usually provided with the graphics card drivers, or in the
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+ absence of that using the linux mesa package. For the standard CentOS repositories, running `yum install mesa-libGLU` (and potentially `yum install mesa-libGLU-devel`) as should provide non-hardware accelerated versions of these libraries.
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-- 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.
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+- All Linux machines need installations of a recent version (6.17+) of csh/tcsh. Red Hat Enterprise Lisnux 6 and other recent distributions usually have an up to date version.
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- 64-bit machines need a number of 32-bit compatibility packages due to a number of 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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yum install libnsl
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- gnome-terminal is required for [hkl2map](https://www.sbgrid.org/software/titles/hkl2map).
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- 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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`apt-get install libc6-i386 lsb tcsh gawk libjpeg62 curl libx11-6:i386 libxext6:i386`
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+Information on configuring 3D stereo can be found [here](stereo)
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## Mac OS X
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- - X11 is no longer included by Apple, and you'll need to install the latest Xquartz version offered on the [MacOSForge site](https://www.xquartz.org/) to run X11-based applications.