AUREA installation

The AUREA application has two primary components. The workspace and the libraries. The AUREA libraries contain all you need to create your own scripts in Python that take advantage of the AUREA system. The AUREA workplace contains the initialization files, settings and required data files that are required to run the GUI interface. It requires the AUREA libraries be installed first.

Windows Installation
Linux Installation
OS X Installation

Install AUREA libraries from pre-built binary distributions.

Windows Installation

Install required software
- Python 2.6.x or 2.7.x
  - Available for free download from python.org, we recommend the 2.7.x release.
  - Note: at this time we do not support 3.x versions of Python
- Tcl/Tk
  - Note: most full python distributions will install this by default
  - If for some reason your distribution did not or you chose not to install it, it is available for free download from ActiveState
Install AUREA libraries
- Via Windows installer(recommended)
  1. Download appropriate AUREA windows installer.
    - AUREA-#.#.#[AUREA version].win[architecture win32 for 32bit and -amd64 for 64bit]-py2.#[your python version].exe
  2. Double click installer after downloaded.
  3. Accept default configuration. (If the installer complains that it cannot find python in the registry, double check the architecture and python version number.)
- Via easy_install
  1. Install and configure easy_install:http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools#windows
    - From downloaded file
      1. Download appropriate AUREA egg.
        
        AUREA-#.#.#[AUREA Version]-py2.#[your python version]-win[your architecture 32 for 32bit and -amd64 for 64bit].egg
      2. Open command line(powershell or cmd)
      3. Change directory to directory containing egg.(Note: if windows changed .egg to .zip you will have to rename the file back to .egg)
      4. Enter: easy_install AUREA*.egg
    - From URL
      1. Copy URL for appropriate AUREA egg
        
        AUREA-#.#.#[AUREA Version]-py2.#[your python version]-win[your architecture 32 for 32bit and -amd64 for 64bit].egg
      2. Open command line(powershell or cmd)
      3. Enter: easy_install [URL]
        
        For example, you would enter easy_install http://www.igb.uiuc.edu/labs/price/downloads/AUREA-1.6.1-py2.7-win-amd64.egg on a 64 bit machine running python 2.7.x
Install the workspace
1. Download the windows workspace [win-workspace.zip]
2. Extract the workspace folder to the location you would like to work from.
Open the workspace folder and double click AUREAGUI.pyw

Linux Installation

Install required software
- Python 2.6.x or 2.7.x
  - Available for free download from python.org or through your favorite package manager.
  - Note: some distributions have a system python installed that you should not change (Redhat for example). In that case you are going to have to do an alternative installation from source. see: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4149361/on-linux-suse-or-redhat-how-do-i-load-python-2-7
  - Note: at this time we do not support 3.x versions of Python
- Tkinter
  - This is supposed to be installed with Python, but under Ubuntu at least, it is not.
  - see: http://tkinter.unpythonic.net/wiki/How_to_install_Tkinter
  - You can test if it is installed by opening a terminal, typing "python"(starting an interactive python session), then trying "import Tkinter" at the >>> prompt
- easy_install
  1. see: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools#cygwin-mac-os-x-linux-other
Install AUREA libraries
1. Select appropriate .egg file for your python version and architecture. Downloads
  - From downloaded file
    1. Download the appropriate egg
    2. open a terminal and go to the folder containing the egg
    3. enter: sudo easy_install AUREA*.egg
  - From url
    1. open a terminal and enter: sudo easy_install http://www.igb.uiuc.edu/labs/price/downloads/AUREA-[version]-py2.[pyversion]-linux-[arch].egg
    2. for example, easy_install http://www.igb.uiuc.edu/labs/price/downloads/AUREA-1.6.1-py2.7-linux-x86_64.egg for python 2.7 on a 64 bit machine.
Install the workspace
1. Download the windows workspace [lin-workspace.zip]
2. Extract the workspace folder to the location you would like to work from.
Open the workspace folder and double click AUREAGUI.py
If it asks, click "Run".
Of course, you can also run it from the terminal, ./AUREAGUI.py

OS X Installation

Install required software
- Python 2.6.x or 2.7.x
  - Available for free download from python.org.
  - Note: Snow leopard comes with 2.6 and lion is rumored to come with 2.7.
  - Note: at this time we do not support 3.x versions of Python
- Tkinter
  - This is should be installed.
  - You can test if it is installed by opening a terminal, typing "python"(starting an interactive python session), then trying "import Tkinter" at the >>> prompt
- easy_install
  1. see: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools#cygwin-mac-os-x-linux-other
Install AUREA libraries
1. Select appropriate .egg file for your python version(Mac eggs ship as universal binaries, so you do not have to worry about architecture). Downloads
  - From downloaded file
    1. Download the appropriate egg
    2. open a terminal and go to the folder containing the egg
    3. enter: easy_install -N AUREA*.egg
  - From url
    1. open a terminal and enter: easy_install http://www.igb.uiuc.edu/labs/price/downloads/AUREA-[AUREA version]-py2.[python version]-macosx-10.#[OS X version]-universal.egg
    2. for example, easy_install http://www.igb.uiuc.edu/labs/price/downloads/AUREA-1.6.1-py2.6-macosx-10.6-universal.egg for python 2.6 on Snow Leopard.
Install the workspace
1. Download the windows workspace [mac-workspace.zip]
2. Extract the workspace folder to the location you would like to work from.
See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1854718/how-to-auto-run-a-script for instructions on how to make AUREAGUI.py clickable.
Of course, you can also run it from the terminal, ./AUREAGUI.py