Installing the FullProf Suite

The different distributions of the FullProf Suite can be downloaded from the FullProf website. Currently, two versions of the FullProf Suite are available. The classic one, which runs entirely under a Winteracter graphical environment, and the modern one, whose graphical environment is based on PySide6, although it still includes some applications built with Winteracter, such as WinPLOTR and EdPCR.

Classic version

Windows

Download the package installer Setup_FullProf_Suite_xy.exe in a temporary directory and run it. Follow the indications of the installer. Avoid directories with spaces or non-ASCII characters.

Linux

General Mode (all users)

  • Activate the super-user mode.

  • Create a directory for the FullProf_Suite, for instance /usr/local/bin/FullProf_Suite/

  • Copy the file FullProf_Suite_xy_Lin.tgz (x=month y=year) in the directory created in the previous step.

  • Extract the file contents:

    tar -xzvf FullProf_Suite_xy_Lin.tgz

  • Set up the environment variable FULLPROF.

Local Mode (single user)

  • Create a directory for the FullProf_Suite, for instance $HOME/FullProf_Suite/.

    cd $HOME
mkdir FullProf_Suite
cd FullProf_Suite

  • Copy the file FullProf_Suite_xy_Linux64.tgz (x=month y=year) in the directory created in the previous step.

  • Extract the file contents:

    tar -xzvf FullProf_Suite_xy_Linux64.tgz

  • Set up the FULLPROF environment variable.

    source Set_FULLPROF_Envi

In the case of General Mode, the FULLPROF environment variable must be defined after the installation. The procedure depends on the system shell: Bourne (sh, bash), Korn (ksh) and C (csh). We show here the steps for the most common shell, bash:

FULLPROF=/usr/local/bin/FullProf_Suite
PATH=$FULLPROF:$PATH
export FULLPROF

Changes must be effective after opening a new terminal window. To verify that everything is ok, type in your terminal the command:

echo $FULLPROF

The shell must return the directory in which you have installed the FullProf Suite. If the FULLPROF environment variable is well set, the different programs of the FullProf Suite will be available from any directory. Programs can be run in console mode or from the toolbar.

In some cases, the graphical interface may fail to work, showing the following error message: “libXm.so.3 not available”. The issue can be resolved by installing the libraries OpenMotif version 2.3.

MacOS

Download the file FullProf4Mac-vxxx.dmg, click on it and drag the FullProf4Mac icon to Applications/.

Requirements

Known bugs

  • XQuartz (at least up to 2.7.11): if XCode is not installed on the computer, XQuartz will reluctantly ask for XCode developer tools. There is no harm in installing those tools to get rid of this error message.

  • XQuartz (at least up to 2.7.11): XQuartz still uses old macOS APIs which makes X11 based dialogues quite slow. Versions 2.8.1 and higher support both Intel and M1 chips and thus the problem may have disappeared.

Modern version

Windows

Download and unzip the FullProf_Suite_PySide6_xy.zip file. A FullProf_Suite/ folder will be created, containing the executable tfp and the subfolder _internal/. Run the executable by double-clicking on it. The toolbar may take a while to appear, about half a minute. Please be patient.

Linux

Download and extract the contents of the file FullProf_Suite_PySide6_xy.tgz.

tar -zxvf FullProf_Suite_PySide6_xy.tgz

A FullProf_Suite/ folder will be created, containing the executable tfp and the subfolder _internal/. Run the executable.

MacOS

We are waiting for a Winteracter version that can run on macOS Apple Silicon. As soon as it becomes available, we will distribute the macOS version.