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Installation

The Data Viewer iscan activelybe supportedrun on Windows, Mac OS and Linux. Windows support can be provided if required.

Mac OS

Mac OS versions are distributed inas an Apple Disk Image (dmg). The dmg format. Contained within the dmg iscontains a single .app which can be placed anywhere on your machine and then run. The recommended location is in your Applications directory. The .app contains all required dependencies. The standard install location is your /Applications directory but can be run from anywhere.

Linux

The Linux version is distributed as an AppImage,AppImage which closelyare emulatessimilar howto the Mac OS apps.apps. work; allAll dependencies are contained within the AppImage.AppImage Thiswhich makes it easy to distribute and run. The user or sys admin does not need to manage dependencies. The AppImage can also be run from any directory.

gse

Windows
directory

The Windows version is distributed as a zip file that contains the executable and all dependencies. The zip file can be extracted to any location. After extraction, the .exe can be run.

Supplementary Directory

We use a separate "gse" repository for each mission to store released versions of the Data Viewer, config files, and other miscellaneous applications and items.files. The repository is used for more than just the Data Viewer. For example, on OCI we have an ocigse Git repository that's maintained on the gs490v-gitlab GitLab. We use the version control to syncprovide acrossupdates to the workstations and end users.

The instructions to setup the gse directoryrepository is mission specific, but can generally be boiled down to:

  1. Acquire permissions to access the repository. Usually a NAMS request.
  2. Checkout the repository
  3. Perform initial one-time setup

If a machine does not have direct access to the repository, the supplementary directory may instead be distributed as a zip file.

The instructions to setup the ocigse directory are maintained in the README.md of the repository: https://gs490v-gitlab.ndc.nasa.gov/497_OCI/OCI_XINA

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