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This guide provides instructions for installing SCIRun, its sample data sets, and SCIRun documentation on the Linux platform. SCIRun may be installed from an RPM or built from source code.
Linux platform guidelines are listed in Table 1, “Platform Guidelines for Linux”.
Linux has been tested on the specified systems and RPMs are provided for these systems. SCIRun should work on other Linux systems as well.
Disk space requirements for a source code installation are listed in Table 2, “Disk Space Requirements”.
Table 1. Platform Guidelines for Linux
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Table 2. Disk Space Requirements
Build with debugging support | 1.3 GB |
Optimized build | 650 MB |
SCIRun sample data (optional) | 1 GB |
Additional notes:
ITK 2.2 is required when building SCIRun with ITK support (SCIRun's ITK package). Earlier versions of ITK will not work.
SCI has experienced a number of strange behaviors with ATI cards. We do not recommend the use of ATI cards at this time.
See the User FAQ for information on video cards and drivers that work with SCIRun's advanced volume rendering code.
NVIDIA drivers, versions 1.0-5328, 1.0-5336, and 1.0-6106, will not work for hardware based texture volume rendering in SCIRun. Please do not update to these drivers if you wish your volume rendering to work.
Driver versions 1.0-4496, 1.0-4363 will work, but 1.0-6111 or later is required for advanced volume rendering.
Driver version 1.0-4191 does not work. SCI has not tested versions earlier than 1.0-4191—they may or may not work.
SCI has experienced a number of strange behaviors when running SCIRun on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We do not recommend running SCIRun on this system at this time.
Proceed to “Installation from RPMs” to install SCIRun from an RPM.
Proceed to “Installation from Source Code” to build SCIRun from source code.