Setting up Nimbus from your Unix Account - Revision 2/15/05

1. We have to customize the execution script.

    1.1 cd $HOME/SUN

    1.2 mkdir csce491 (or mkdir csce611); cd csce491 (or cd csce611); mkdir nimbus

    1.3 cd nimbus

    1.4 /usr/local/nimbus/setup_user

        - specify your new nimbus directory as the default (hit 'newline')

        - specify the printer 'l39' as the default printer for your nimbus setup (the printer in 1D39).

        - specify 'acroread' as the Adobe reader for displaying Help.

        --> This creates a file called 'run_nimbus' in your nimbus directory.

2. We have to set up the proper environment variables for pointing to the license file:

    2.1 setenv LM_LICENSE_FILE  /usr/local/nimbus/license/license.dat

    2.2 /usr/openwin/bin/xrdb -m /usr/local/etc/flowHDL.Xdefaults

    --> You might want to take these command lines and place them in your .cshrc file, located in your $HOME directory, so that they execute every time you login or start another command terminal window.

3. To run Nimbus:

    3.1 always start it from in your nimbus directory

    3.2 ./run_nimbus&

    --> This should start the Nimbus application.