Installing Spire

These instructions are for systems that already have the additional packages required by Spire.

• Extract the file spire-1.5.tar.gz into a temporary directory.
• Change to the spire-1.5 directory, and run the program setup.py:
  cd spire-1.5.0
  python setup.py
  setup.py tries to find the commands that run SPIDER and Jweb, and writes these commands to Spire/LocalVars.py
  LocalVars.py also has a 'hostlist' variable. Edit this to include machines on your network that run spider.
  E.g., Spire/LocalVars.py will look something like this:

  spidercmd = '/usr/local/bin/spider'
  jwebcmd = 'java -Xmx300m -Djava.util.prefs.syncInterval=2000000 StartWeb SPIDUI &'
  hostlist = ['fred', 'barney', 'wilma']
  webBasedir = 'http://www.wadsworth.org/spider_doc/spider/docs/spire'
  

  Then setup tries to copy the Spire directory to the Python site-packages directory, whose path may look like this:
  /usr/local/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Spire
  You may need a system administrator or someone who has write permission for this directory to install Spire here.
  In addition to Spire, setup.py also installs a Spider directory under site-packages. The Spider library enables you to write Python programs that can work with Spider files. See www.wadsworth.org/spider_doc/spider/docs/python/spipylib/index.html
  Finally, setup will display a command to add spire-1.5.0/bin to your path. The bin directory contains useful utilites, including numerous graphical tools, which are described at www.wadsworth.org/spider_doc/spider/docs/spire/guitools/index.html
• Change to a directory on your executable path, type the command. It will look something like:

  ln -s /your/local/path/to/lib/python2.3/site-packages/Spire/spire.py spire
  

  Alternatively, you can add the installation directory to your path.

1. The installation directory, spire-1.5, contains
   • the bin subdirectory, with spire, and various graphical tools (copied from guitools),
   • the newprogs and test subdirectories, containing batch files that are included with the Spire package.
2. the Python site-packages directory, site-packages/Spire contains
   • Spire code (Python files), including LocalVars.py,
   • the config subdirectory, with various configuration files.
The configuration files have location tags that point to batch files in the installation directory, e.g.,

<location>/home/user/spire-1.5/newprogs</location>