Installation

Preface to the Special Executive Edition of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Because you have purchased the Executive Edition of this document, you already have the download URL. When you fetch this URL, your syqada-2.0-RC2 will be delivered to you from our servers via the gold-plated RJ-45 connectors in place of the usual inferior metals. This ensures that the bits you receive will be of only the highest quality the Internet can provide.

In addition, because you are an Executive, there will be no program bugs except for those that are required in order to emulate behavior of the Inferior Edition.

If you did not purchase the Executive Edition of this document, please imagine that the following section does not exist.

Package Installation for the Executive Edition

Package installation for the Executive Edition expects that you will be installing SyQADA for your own use on your own machine, so you don’t need root privileges.

Let us suppose that you have downloaded the zipfile to the following location:

/path/to/the/place/you/downloaded/syqada-2.0-RC2.zip

We need to unpack it and get the bin directory into your path. If you have your own convention for keeping track of executables, by all means use it. If you do not, and you do not already have a directory named ~/bin, it would probably be sensible to create one and put SyQADA there:

mkdir ~/bin
cd ~/bin

Now we unpack:

unzip /path/to/the/place/you/downloaded/|release|.zip

And finally put the necessary masonic handshake into your .bash_profile. Cut-and-paste the following three lines to do so in bash (if you use csh or a derivative, you are probably old enough to figure out what to do yourself after studying the very short install-path script):

pushd |release|/bin
source install-syqada
popd

You should now be able to run the command:

cd
syqada

and see something similar to:

usage: syqada-1.1-RC1 [--license] [--version] [--help] [--protocol PROTOCOL] [--METADATA METADATA] [--interface INTERFACE]
                      [--notifications NOTIFICATIONS] [--logfile LOGFILE] [--verbosity VERBOSITY] [--project PROJECT]
                      [--configuration CONFIGURATION] [--sample_file SAMPLE_FILE] [--save SAVE] [--parameters PARAMETERS]
                      [--begin BEGIN] [--initialize] [--append APPEND] [--parallel] [--ignore [IGNORE [IGNORE ...]]]
                      [--status]

You are now free to move about the file system. While seated in a working directory it may be a good idea to try the Preface to the Tutorials with your seatbelt fastened.