Installation

Before installing FISA, it is necessary to have previously installed DISLIN, wich can be directly downloaded from http://www.mps.mpg.de/dislin/. 

After DISLIN has been installed, you can proceed with FISA installation. Such procedure is very simple. Just follow the steps below:

    1) Uncompress fisarelease_v0.92.tar.gz on a directory. This can be done in the following way:

        user@localhost:~$ tar -zxvf fisa_v1.0.tar.gz 

    2) To make things easier, I made a script to install FISA, located inside the uncompressed directory. You have to execute it as follows:

        user@localhost:~$ ./INSTALL 

Once this has been done, you will receive and error message saying that the environment variable FISA_PATH is not defined. So, you have to define it. For instance:

        user@localhost:~$ export FISA_PATH=~/fisadir    

or 

       user@localhost:~$ setenv FISA_PATH=~/fisadir

depending on your shell.

This environment variable tells FISA in wich directory you want to install it.

These are all the necessary steps for FISA installation.

To make FISA available for general use, I recommend to write the following commands in your .profile

        FISA_PATH=directory #(e.g. ~/fisa)

        export FISA_PATH

        PATH=${PATH}:${FISA_PATH}/bin

Otherwise, whenever you want to run FISA you will have to define the environment variable FISA_PATH. 

Note that the definition of the environment variable FISA_PATH is strictly necessary for running FISA. If you forget to define it, you will receive an error message.

Some known problems of DISLIN Installation on Ubuntu 11.10

Dislin widget need some X11 fonts which, for some reason, are not installed in Ubuntu 11.10 by default. You have to install them:

        sudo apt-get install xfonts-75dpi

        sudo apt-get install xfonts-100dpi

Also note that you need the OpenMotif library:

        sudo apt-get install libmotif-dev