Installing Auton Software

Microsoft Windows Installation Instructions

The graphical and command line based versions of the Auton software are available as Windows installation packages. These packages contain everything you need to begin running the software including documentation and one or more sample dataset files.

To Install the Packages:

Use Windows Explorer to browse for the file you downloaded
(ex. project_gui_setup.exe, project_cli_setup.exe)
Double click on the file to begin the installation process.
By default, all Auton software will be installed as a subdirectory of C:\Program Files\autonlab.

To Uninstall the Packages:

Open the Windows 'Control Panel' (Start/Settings/Control Panel).
Choose 'Add/Remove Programs'
Select the Auton Lab software from the list and remove it.

The html documentation distributed with the software will explain how to run the software. The html documentation is also available for viewing directly from the page where you downloaded the software.

Other versions of the software that may be available include an interface to the 'R' statistical package and an embeddable C library version. If you are downloading these packages, you may also need to download the example datasets and documentation - which are not necessarily included in the package.

The 'R' and embeddable C library versions of the software are available as ZIP files. If your version of Windows does not automatically open these files, you may need to install Winzip or another tool that can unpack .zip files.

Linux/Unix Installation Instructions

The graphical and command line based versions of the Auton software are available as gzipped tar archives. These packages contain everything you need to begin running the software including documentation and one or more sample dataset files.

To unpack the archive on Linux/Unix platforms (or other platforms that use GNU tar):

tar xzvf <filename>.tar.gz

To unpack the archive on other Unices:

gzip -dc <filename>.tar.gz | tar xvf -