Installing on Solaris

Solaris installation instructions

Compatibility

Slicer is compatible with Solaris 2.8 (also known as Solaris 8 or SunOS 5.8) and OpenGL 1.2. Although we do not formally support Solaris 2.5, some users have been able to make it work with some difficulty.

System Requirements

Memory: Minimum: 128 MB.
Disk Space: 35 MB to download the installer, which expands to about 140 MB. The tutorial data set requires 37 MB.
Processor Speed: Has run successfully on a 450-MHz machine; a faster processor speed is recommended.

Installation Steps

Replace slicer in the following instructions with the correct version, operating system designation, and date, for example, slicer2.4-solaris-sparc-2005-01-11.

Download the desired version of the slicer.tar.gz file to your computer. (Instructions about how to download the most recent version were emailed to you upon receipt of your signed Software License Agreement. If you have not filled this out yet, click here.)
At a shell prompt, type the following commands to uncompress the file and create a slicer2 directory:
gunzip slicer.tar.gz
tar xf slicer.tar
The slicer2/slicer_variables.tcl file automatically sets up the SLICER_HOME environment variable to point to the directory where the slicer2 directory is installed.
Move the slicer2 directory into a shared system directory that every user can access. Create a symbolic link from a directory that is in every user's PATH environment variable to slicer2/slicer2-solaris-sparc. For example, this may be /usr/local/bin.
Launch Slicer by typing the following command at a shell prompt:
slicer2-solaris-sparc

Frequently Asked Questions

How can I load an existing data set?

At the shell prompt, type slicer2-solaris-sparc followed by the name of your MRML file.

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