Technical Support Information
Last update: 26 September 2006

 

Installation of GaussView 3.07 for UNIX Systems

Prelimary step for all systems:

  1. Select a group that will have access to GaussView. This should not be an administrative group. You may want to create a new group for this purpose. Contact your system administrator if you need help with this process.

Scenario 1: Gaussian 03 and GaussView on the SAME computer:

  1. Mount the CD. Information about how to do this for various types of computer can be found here.

  2. Change to the C shell, and set the g03root and mntpnt environment variables:
    3. $ /bin/csh 
% setenv mntpnt "/mnt/cdrom"     # Set to wherever cd is mounted. 
% setenv g03root "dir"           # Set to location of g03 directory. 
% cd $g03root

    The correct directory to specify in the third command is the location of the g03 subdirectory, not the path to that directory. Thus, if the path to the Gaussian 03 directory is /apps/chem/g03, then set g03root to /apps/chem.

  3. 3. Read the CD and set the group ownership for the new gv directory:
    4. % cat $mntpnt/tar/*.taz | zcat | tar xvf - 
% chgrp -R grp gv                # grp is group selected in step 0.
  4. You are now ready to run. The g03 initialization script has set up an alias named gv which points to the correct directory.

Scenario 2: Gaussian 03 and GaussView on DIFFERENT computers:

  1. Mount the CD. Information about how to do this for various types of computer can be found here.

  2. Select an installation location. /usr/local or /usr/local/bin are common choices. Note that GaussView will be installed in a subdirectory named gv under the selected location.

  3. Read the CD (change to the C shell first):
    4. $ /bin/csh 
% setenv mntpnt "/mnt/cdrom"       # Set to wherever cd is mounted. 
% cd install-point 
% cat $mntpnt/tar/*.taz | zcat | tar xvf - 
% chgrp -R grp gv                  # grp is the group from step 0.
  4. GaussView users will need to set the GV_DIR environment variable to the path of the gv directory. For example:
    5. % setenv GV_DIR /usr/local/bin/gv         # C shells 
$ GV_DIR=/usr/loca/bin/gv; export GV_DIR  # Bourne-type shells

    You will probably want to place one of these commands into users’ .profile or .login files.

  5. 5. GaussView is now ready to run.