Installation of TM4 MeV 4.5.1

Java, already installed.

Here is the procedure to install MeV:

• MeV is distributed as a startup script that encapsulated a collection of JAR files with the application and auxiliaries. In Linux, MeV is distributed wither in a 32-bit or 64-bit version since a local R install is installed (as of version 4.5, there is an internal dependency between MeV and R which makes MeV dependant on a specific verion of R); download the right version for your system! Decompress the ZIP archive under /home/bioubuntu and move this folder to /opt/bio/sources.

% sudo mv /home/bioubuntu/MeV_4_5_1 /opt/bio/sources

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

% sudo chown -R root:root /opt/bio/sources/MeV_4_5_1
% sudo chmod 755 /opt/bio/sources/MeV_4_5_1

• Once you are in /opt/bio/sources/MeV_4_5_1, you have to edit the tmev.sh script so that it will work in an Impilo install. Open it and edit the following lines:

#blablabla...
for jar in lib/*.jar

now becomes

#blablabla...
TM4MEV_HOME=/opt/bio/sources/MeV_4_5_1
 
for jar in $TM4MEV_HOME/lib/*.jar

and

#blablabla...
CurrDIR=`pwd`

decomes

#blablabla...
CurrDIR=$TM4MEV_HOME

• You need to make this script available to all (it is already executable):

% sudo ln -s /opt/bio/sources/MeV_4_5_1/tmev.sh /usr/local/bin/tmev

• To add MeV to the Impilo application menu, you need to edit the Xfce4 configuration file:

% sudo xfce4-menueditor /etc/xdg/xfce4/desktop/menu.xml

• The three things to add are :
  • Item: Launcher
  • Name: TM4 MeV
  • Command: tmev