VOTPP Installation

The VOTPP software library is distributed in a tar.gz package. You can find the latest version here . To unpack the package simply issue the command:

    tar xvzf votpp-x.y.z.tar.gz  

where x, y, z are the version number (namely the first number is the major revision, the second number is the version, and third number is the subversion). A directory named votpp-x.y.z will be created containing all sources code as well as the documentation and the scripts needed to install VOTPP. Before installing VOTPP you should check that all mandatory dependencies are satisfied (see Sect. Dependencies), then you must follow a three step procedure: Configure, Compile and Installing VOTPP.

Dependencies

The only mandatory packages required by VOTPP are:

If these package are not already installed in the system you should install them before continuing.

Installing VOTPP

Configure

Configuring VOTPP means checking your system for compatibilities, search for include files and libraries, and finally produce all necessary Makefile s needed to compile VOTPP. This is done automatically by the distributed configure script. Typically you can use this script without any option, as follows:

    ./configure  

Anyway configure has a lot of options and switches (type configure --help for a list) to customize the compilation step. For further documentation see the INSTALL file.

Compile

To compile VOTPP, once the configure script has been correctly executed, simply issue the command:

    make  

If you got errors while compiling check Sect. Configure and the INSTALL file.

Install

If VOTPP has been correctly compiled you can install with the command:

    make install  

If your account doesn't have the permission to write in the path where it should be installed then you'll get an error. In this case you should login as "root" and retry.


VOTPP (VOTable C++ Parser) ver. 0.3.2-alpha1
Documentation generated on Sun Nov 18 12:06:20 UTC 2007