3.1. Installation of the windows version

MetaSite is distributed for the windows platform in form of a self-extracting executable file (please note that, depending on the operating system version, administrative priviledges may be required).

STEP 1.

To start the Setup Wizard application double-click the installer icon.

A dialog window is issued, prompting the user for confirmation:

The welcome page of the setup wizard is then shown:

Click on the Next button to proceed to the License Agreement page:

Please read the shown terms and conditions, then click the I Agree button to accept the licensing terms and continue the installation procedure:

The Choose Install Location page allows the users to customize the installation path. Provide a different filesystem location if needed and then click the Install button to start the actual installation process:

Once the installation is completed click the Next button to move to the last page:

The installation is finished. Click the Finish button to close the setup wizard.

STEP 2.

Use of the installed programs requires a suitable license line.

On first run, and as long as no valid license is found for the current host, MetaSite will show a dialog window like this:

Please copy the line shown verbatim and send it to Molecular Discovery. License requests should be submitted online to the Molecular Discovery web site (http://www.moldiscovery.com). We will send you back a similar line containing the license key.

License lines should be copied verbatim to the license.txt file, located in the MetaSite install folder. As long as this file does not contain a suitable license line, MetaSite will keep showing the above information or an error message and will not start.

Please notice that license lines are unique for each system. If you repeat the installation on a different host you will need a new license line.

3.2. Installation of the unix version

STEP 1.

Change directory to the mount point of your local CD-ROM or to the temporary directory where you have copied the contents of the CD-ROM. For example:

cd /CDROM

Start the MetaSite installation tool

./install.sh

Type Yes if you accept the terms and condition.

Type the full path of the Destination directory, the directory where the MetaSite programs will be installed. This should be the name of a new, non-existing directory. Do not create this directory before running install. Be aware that you must have write permission to create such a directory.

The program will copy all of the required files to the installation directory and prepare the MetaSite binary files.

STEP 2

The installation program creates two launch scripts, metasite and metasite-cli, that should be executed to run the corresponding applications. These scripts provide the necessary environment settings and run the corresponding programs in a new shell to avoid potential configuration conflicts.

In order to allow the user to invoke those scripts without providing the full path of the installation directory, the installation path is to be added to the $PATH environment variable.

If you wish to make MetaSite generally available we suggest adding something like the following to the /etc/bashrc file (you will need administrator privileges to do this):

export PATH=/usr/local/metasite:$PATH

where we assume that the installation directory for MetaSite is /usr/local/metasite

If you have no administrative privileges in your computer you can obtain the same results by adding such a line to the file .bashrc present in your home directory.

STEP 3

Use of the installed programs will require a suitable license line.

If you added the above-mentioned line to your configurations file you will need to open a new terminal window to update the environment settings. In this window type:

metasite

On first run, and as long as no valid license is found for the current host, MetaSite will show a dialog window like this:

Please copy the shown line verbatim and send it to MD. License requests should be submitted online to the Moleculer Discovery web site (http://www.moldiscovery.com). We will send you back a similar line containing the license key.

License lines should be copied verbatim to the license.txt file, present in the MetaSite install directory. As long as this file does not contain a suitable license line, MetaSite will keep showing the above information or an error message and will not start.

Please notice that license lines are unique for each system. If you repeat the installation on a different host you will need a new license line.

	alpha 319425160 L MSITE_30 31-Dec-2008 z16XBqFJwJBS key
	beta -720771573 L MSITE_30 31-Dec-2008 gjerRFMESNoK key
	gamma 720771573 L MSITE_30 21-Dec-2008 orxigqOxHqzo key