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This is a short instruc­tion to how to install EMSO on last Ubuntu ver­sion: 10.04 LTS (code­name Lucid Lynx). First of all get the last releases of EMSO and VRTherm here. VRTherm is a ther­mo­dy­namic prop­er­ties pack­age that works as a plu­gin of EMSO. Cur­rently the last ones are emso-beta-linux2-i386-0.10.3.tar.gz and vrtherm-linux2-i386-1.4.2.tar.gz. So that untar them:

If you want to have EMSO and VRTherm avail­able for all users you should copy them to a com­mon place:

And cre­ate sym­bolic links to call EMSO and VRTherm:

So you can call them any­where by typ­ing in the terminal:

Let’s start get­ting all the pack­ages nec­es­sary from Ubuntu repository.

And finally the libfox1.4 pack­age must be tak­ing from an old repos­i­tory. It is essen­tial to run EMSO and VRTherm promptly:

Addi­tion­ally to run all sam­ples you should give write per­mis­sion to folder /mso/sample (or copy it to your /home folder). EMSO needs to cre­ate tem­po­rary files to open dia­gram files (.PFD) oth­er­wise EMSO crashes.

To start using EMSO for all appli­ca­tions you must prop­erly con­fig­ure the ther­mo­dy­namic pack­age. Call EMSO and go to “Con­fig” > “Plu­g­ins…” and add a plu­gin calls PP and the path to the file libvrpp.so under /usr/local/vrtherm/libvrpp.so as shown in Fig­ure. Press­ing “Add Plu­gin” and “Ok”, PP will be shown in “Reg­is­tered Plu­g­ins” sec­tion above. EMSO will be ready after restart application.