Installation

edfAsc is a program that has been built using Qt. So, to compile it, you will need to have this library installed. And you should know where it is located. In my system it is installed at /usr/lib/qt3. You would have to locate this directory in your system

edfAsc can be downloaded in two different forms

• As a source
• As a pre-compiled auto-installable binary version for Windows:

They can be downloaded from the download page.

In Linux systems, after downloading the file we decompress the sources in this way

je@unit1:~/tmp/tutorial> tar zxvf edfAsc-0.0.tar.gz
edfAsc-0.0/
...
je@unit1:~/tmp/tutorial> cd edfAsc-0.0/
je@unit1:~/tmp/tutorial/edfAsc-0.0>

Now we compile the sources (you have to know the location of Qt in your system). To do this we need qmake, a utility included in Qt that creates a Makefile

je@unit1:~/tmp/tutorial/edfAsc-0.0> export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt3
je@unit1:~/tmp/tutorial/edfAsc-0.0> export PATH=$PATH:$QTDIR/bin

It is quite simple: we define the location and change the path to include the binary files needed by Qt

je@unit1:~/tmp/tutorial/edfAsc-0.0> qmake
je@unit1:~/tmp/tutorial/edfAsc-0.0> make
g++ -c -pipe -O2 -marc...

That's all; we have the program at the directory. We do not need further installation. In order to run the program we can make a link to a directory included in the path or you we even create a link on the desktop.

The first tab of edfAsc is shown in figure 2.1

Figure 2.1: This is first tab of edfAsc

And the second tab of edfAsc is shown in figure 2.2

Figure 2.2: This is second tab of edfAsc

Now let's speak briefly about the installation on Windows systems: you only have to click on the installer. This tutorial is aimed to Linux users but I hope that its contents could be easily adapted and understood by Windows users too.