====== Installation of MIRA 3.0RC4 ======

===== Additional libraries ===== 

If you start from source code, you will need ''libboost-dev'':
<code>
% sudo apt-get -y install libboost-dev
</code>

However, take note that the Ubuntu 8.04 version of this package is too old (1.34) compared to the required version needed to compile MIRA from source ( should be >1.35).

===== Procedure =====

Because of the ''libboost-dev'' issue, I have decided to start from the pre-compiled version of MIRA slected according to the copmuter's architecture (either real or virtual). Starting from Impilo 10.04 A10, I will install from source code.

Here is the procedure to install MIRA with the compiled application:

  * The archive with the MIRA executables is downloaded in ''/home/bioubuntu'', decompressed and the created folder moved into ''/opt/bio/sources'' under a shorter name, for example:
<code bash>
% mv mira_3rc4_dev_linux-gnu_x86_64_static /opt/bio/sources/mira_3rc4
</code>

  * This folder should belong to ''root'' and its permissions should be set to ''755''.

<code bash>
% sudo chown -R root:root /opt/bio/sources/mira_3rc4
% sudo chmod 755 /opt/bio/sources/mira_3rc4
</code>

  * To make the application available to all, you need to modify the ''/etc/profile'' file by adding the following lines at the very end:
<code bash>
#
# MIRA specific environment variables
#
PATH=/opt/bio/sources/mira_3rc4/bin:$PATH
</code>