Installation of Tracer 1.5

Java, already installed.

Here is the procedure to install Tracer:

• After downloading the archive with Tracer from the web, decompressed it in /home/bioubuntu and moved the newly created folder in /opt/bio/sources:

% sudo mv Tracer_v1.5 /opt/bio/sources

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

% sudo chown -R root:root /opt/bio/sources/Tracer_v1.5
% sudo chmod 755 /opt/bio/sources/Tracer_v1.5

• Once you get in /opt/bio/sources/Tracer_v1.5, the startup script is in bin/ and no further modification is necessary.To make int available to all:

% sudo chmod 755 /opt/bio/sources/Tracer_v1.5/bin/tracer
% sudo ln -s /opt/bio/sources/Tracer_v1.5/bin/tracer /usr/local/bin/tracer

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

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

• The three items to add are :
  • Item: Launcher
  • Name: Tracer
  • Command: tracer