If you start from source code, you will need libboost-dev:

% sudo apt-get -y install libboost-dev

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).

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:

% mv mira_3rc4_dev_linux-gnu_x86_64_static /opt/bio/sources/mira_3rc4

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

% sudo chown -R root:root /opt/bio/sources/mira_3rc4
% sudo chmod 755 /opt/bio/sources/mira_3rc4

• To make the application available to all, you need to modify the /etc/profile file by adding the following lines at the very end:

#
# MIRA specific environment variables
#
PATH=/opt/bio/sources/mira_3rc4/bin:$PATH