Windows

Thanks to Mauricio Troviano, we have an installer for Windows.

The installer contains the necessary Qt dlls, is able to download and install Python and provides a binary version of PyQt that works with SciDAVis. The manual is not included due to its size and our intention to update it in between releases. Likewise, translations currently have to be installed seperately. Future releases of the installer may be extended to handle these things.

That said, all necessary links and files can be found here.

Linux

SUSE

Thanks to Quentin Denis, packages of the application as well as the manual are available here.

Debian

Thanks to Burkhard Bunk, packages for Debian Etch are available here.

Fedora

Thanks to Eric Tanguy, SciDAVis is now included in Fedora 8 and the following versions.

Other distributions

For all distributions that don’t have specific packages yet, we offer a universal binary. You need to install the following dependencies, either from your package manager or by following the links below:

Get scidavis-x.y.z-linux.tar.bz2 from here. If you don’t know how to open this file, start a terminal, cd to the directory containing it and enter

1 tar xjvf scidavis-x.y.z-linux.tar.bz2

This will create a directory “scidavis-x.y.z” with the binary and some additional files.

MacOS X

Thanks to Yu-Hung Lien, a MacOS X binary for Intel Macs is available here.

Currently, we do not have anyone to test SciDAVis on a PowerPC based Mac or provide pre-compiled PowerPC binaries. Any help in this area will be greatly appreciated.

Special note for compiling SciDAVis 0.1.2: before compiling you need to edit scidavis/scidavis.pro and replace every occurence of “LIBS += -L /some/directory” with “LIBS += -L/some/directory” (remove the space character). This is fixed in SciDAVis 0.1.3.

Source tarballs

Even though the INSTALL.html file included in the source tarballs contains pretty detailled instructions for compiling SciDAVis, this is more difficult than installing pre-compiled packages. If you’ve never compiled an application before, you’ll probably spend some time figuring out how to install all the dependencies (including development packages). You have been warned.

That said, you can get the sources either as .tar.bz2 or .zip archive here.

The bleeding edge (subversion repository)

You only need to get this if you want to participate in developing SciDAVis or test the things we are currently working on (which is to say, they are generally unfinished and not suitable for normal usage).

To check out the code in development, you need a Subversion client. The latest stable code can be obtained as follows:

1 svn checkout https://scidavis.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/scidavis/branches/current_stable scidavis

The code of the unstable version (possibly very unstable) can be obtained from the so-called ‘trunk’ where the newest features are developed:

1 svn checkout https://scidavis.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/scidavis/trunk scidavis

If you are interested in the development version, we highly recommend contacting us on the scidavis-contributers mailing list.

After the svn checkout, you proceed as with the source tarballs.

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