PREPARATION FOR INSTALLATION

The distribution contains programs and libraries for Linux64 (64bit).

Install MIDAS base package for your machine architecture from 
http://npg.dl.ac.uk/MIDAS/download/introduction.html
Install in any suitable path.
cd <some-directory>

In the following, substitute <pathname> for that directory.
This would unpack into, for example,  <pathname>/MIDAS_base_220114

Login as root and make symlink /MIDAS
e.g.
ln -s <pathname>/MIDAS_base_220114 /MIDAS

OR install as non-root and set environment variable MIDASBASE
e.g.
setenv MIDASBASE <pathname>/MIDAS_base_220114

Make sure that $(MIDASBASE)/log directory exists
and is writeable by all.

cd $MIDASBASE
tar xf <downloaded MTsort tar file>

SHARED MEMORY SPECTRUM SERVER (shmsas)

shmsas is now executed for each user automatically in MTsort Setup

The sort setup window checks if shmsas is already running
and automatically executes it if not.
The shared memory spectrum server can be restarted, if necessary, 
using the "Run SHMSAS" button in the Setup window.


MIDAS EXPERIMENT

A MIDAS "experiment" needs to be created and connected.
This is explained in the following section, 
Normally, a temporary experiment is created automatically
by MTsort Setup if one does not exist, 

SHMSAS APPARATUS

The old style RPC apparatus which needed attach/remove/claim/free
should be removed from any existing experiments.
Shmsas should be stopped and removed from any init script.
	
A shared memory spectrum server SOAP record needs to exist in the current
MIDAS EXPERIMENT.

This is of the form ...
SortSas localhost:10235 Spectrum SpectrumService SpectrumService SpectrumClient

This definition should appear in the SOAPServers file
in the experiment directory,

RUNNING ...

There is an execution script in MTsort/bin_Linux64/mtsort-session
This may be copied into a PATH directory.

JRC 1/11/2016

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