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Setting up your laptop with GENI Tools
Some of the tutorials at this camp will require you have a laptop that has:
- The Omni experimenter tool installed,
- A browser capable of running Flash clients, and
- An ssh client.
1. Install Omni
Mac OS x
1. Installing the Omni Experimenter Tool
- Download this file: omniTools.dmg.
- Double-click on
omniTools.dmg
to unpack it. This will result in a drive calledomniTools
to be mounted on your computer. You should see this drive on your Desktop. - Double-click on the
omniTools
drive to open it. - Drag the omniTools icon to the Applications icon.
- Open a terminal window.
- Run the script
/Applications/omniTools/addAliases.sh
. This script will add aliases for the various Omni tools in your~/.bash_profile
or~/.bash_login
or~/.profile
. (The script looks for these files in this order).- If you get an error do:
touch ~/.bash_profile
- Rerun
/Applications/omniTools/addAliases.sh
- If you get an error do:
Windows
- Download this file: omni-tools-2.4.2-setup.exe.
- Run the Windows installer by double clicking on the downloaded file.
- Point the
PATH
environment variable to the installed executables:- Edit environment variables
- In Windows 7, open the
Control Panel
and search forPATH
in the search box. Click on "Edit environment variables for your accounts". - In Windows XP, find the System Properties window under
Control Panel -> System -> Advanced System Settings
and click "Environment Variables".
- In Windows 7, open the
- Set the
PATH
variable.- Determine the value of your
PATH
variable:- For Windows XP: select
C:\Program Files\omniTools
- For Windows 7: select
C:\Program Files (x86)\omniTools
- For Windows XP: select
- If there is no
PATH
variable, click "New..." and set the namePATH
and the value ofC:\Program Files (x86)\omniTools
(or
C:\Program Files\omniTools`). - If there is a
PATH
variable, click "Edit..." and append;C:\Program Files (x86)\omniTools
(or;C:\Program Files\omniTools
) to thePATH
variable. Be sure to include the;
.
- Determine the value of your
- Edit environment variables
Test the installation:
- Test the installation by opening a Command Prompt and running the command:
omni --version
The Windows Command Prompt can be found by navigating:Start menu -> Programs -> Accessories -> Command Prompt
- If everything goes well, you should see output that looks like:
omni: GENI Omni Command Line Aggregate Manager Tool Version 2.4.2 Copyright (c) 2013 Raytheon BBN Technologies
Linux
- Download the GCF package from http://software.geni.net/local-sw/download&software=gcf-2.4.1.tar.gz
- Install the GCF package using instructions at http://trac.gpolab.bbn.com/gcf/wiki/QuickStart. The Omni tool is part of the GCF package.
Test the installation:
- Open a new terminal window.
- In this terminal window, run the command:
omni.py --version
If omni prints out its version number, you are all set!
2. SSH Client
3. Flash-enabled Browser
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