Installation

The Data Viewer is supported on both Mac OS and Linux. Windows is possible but not actively supported.

Mac OS

Mac OS versions are distributed as a dmg. Contained within the dmg is a single .app which can be placed anywhere on your machine and then run. The standard location is within your /Applications directory but will run from anywhere.

Linux

Linux versions are distributed as AppImages, which closely emulates how the Mac OS apps work; all dependencies are contained within the app image. This makes it a lot easier to distribute and run without the user or sys admin having to manage dependencies.

gse directory

We use a "gse" repository for each mission to store released versions of the Data Viewer, various config files, and other miscellaneous applications and items. For example, on OCI we have an ocigse Git repository that's maintained on the gs490v-gitlab GitLab.

The instructions to setup the gse directory varies a bit between the missions, but can generally be boiled down to:

1. Get the required permissions to access the repository
2. Checkout the repository
3. Perform initial one-time setup

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