This video presents how to install Poky on Mac. Poky requires the installation of XQuartz.app that you can find the link from the download page. If your computer does not allow to use the program downloaded from Internet, you will need to follow this instruction: https://osxdaily.com/2015/05/04/disable-gatekeeper-command-line-mac-osx

That is basically, 

• Download poky_mac.zip.

• Download and install XQuartz 2.8.4.

• (Optional) sudo spctl --master-disable

• Unzip poky_mac.zip.

• Run poky_macinstall.command file from Finder. Do not click the Move to trash button. Click Cancel instead. You can find poky in /Applications.

  • Less preferred way in case you are not an admin: The poky.app can be moved to your preferred place. 

• System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General > Click the "Open Anyway" button for the first time may be necessary.

• System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Full Disk Access > add poky.app and XQuartz.app

  • Giving the full disk access to sh, launchd_startx, PokyAnalyzer.app, easy_ucsfdata.app, and ndpplot.app may be necessary in some cases

• (Optional) sudo spctl --master-enable if you wish to get the gatekeeper back

XQuartz 2.8.5 beta 3 and newer have a flaw in drawing. Use 2.8.5 beta 2 or older unless this sentence is updated.

This video presents how to install Poky on Windows 10. Poky does not quire any special installation steps other than uncompressing the poky_win.zip package and executing poky.bat in poky_win\bin folder. Some special external modules may require the installation of the VS redistribution package that you can find the link from the download page.

Simpler approach would be,

• Download poky_win.zip.

• Unzip poky_win.zip.

• Install MSVC Runtine.

• Install by running poky_wininstall.bat in the uncompressed package.

• Use C:\poky_win\bin\poky.bat

In this video, you'll see how you can install Poky on Linux. We'll use Ubuntu 20.04 for this demonstration. There are some required libraries you need to install. Copy and paste this line in the terminal (only italics): 

• (Ubuntu-based) $ sudo apt install libxcb*-dev libcanberra-gtk-module

• (Redhat-based) $ sudo dnf install libxcb*-devel xcb-util-*-devel libXrender-devel libxkbcommon*-devel libXi-devel libdrm-devel libXcursor-devel libXcomposite-devel libpng15

Then, extract poky_linux.zip and run poky_linux/bin/poky.sh to launch Poky.

For your convenience, you can alias the command (e.g. alias poky='poky_linux/bin/poky.sh' in .bash_aliases)

Simpler approach would be,

• Download poky_linux.zip.

• Run poky_linuxinstall.sh from the uncompressed package.

• Type poky in the terminal.

If you cannot run PokyAnalyzer, NDP-PLOT and EASY_UCSFDATA on Ubuntu 24.04, you can do following:

• wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/h/harfbuzz/libharfbuzz0b_2.7.4-1ubuntu3_amd64.deb

• wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/pango1.0/libpango-1.0-0_1.50.6+ds-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb

• wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/pango1.0/libpangoft2-1.0-0_1.50.6+ds-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb

• wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cairo/libcairo2_1.16.0-5ubuntu2_amd64.deb

• sudo dpkg -i *.deb