Obtaining and Installing the Tool

Linux Installation

To install the RPM, you need to have root access. If you don't, you'll need to persurade your system administrator to install the package for you. If that isn't feasible or you don't want to, you can instead download the Source package, and compile the tools yourself, where you can install them in your own home directory without requiring root privileges.

To install the package: (Do this as root)

rpm -i stp-X.X.X.rpm

(Or course you need to replace the X's with whatever version you downloaded, for example: "rpm -i stp-1.0.13-1.rpm")

After the package is installed, you can find out where it was put by using this rpm command, which does not require root access:

rpm -ql stp | grep stp

You should see something like the following:

/usr/local/bin/stp

which tells you that the package has been installed in /usr/local, which is the default.

This directory needs to be added to your path, in order to run the tools. Exactly how you do this depends on which UNIX shell you are using.

For example, suppose you've installed the software in /opt/asf_tools. For bash or the like, add these lines to your ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc file:

export PATH=/opt/asf_tools/bin:$PATH

For csh or the like, add this line to your ~/.cshrc file:

setenv PATH /opt/asf_tools/bin:$PATH

If you've gone with the default installation location of /usr/local, you may already have /usr/local/bin in your path, in which case you don't need to do anything.