Requirements
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- Sun's JDK/JRE 1.5.0.
- bash
- tcsh
- gawk
- perl
- optional: GD.pm
If you you have a standard Linux distribution installed most of these things will be installed as default.
Except Sun's java, there might be another Java interpretters installed but to our knowledge they are
not quite as good.

Sarse might be compatible with other implementations of Java, but it has been tested only with
 GJC from the GCC package with a negative result.

Operating system
Linux: It should run on any linux/unix distribution.
The application is developed and tested on 
-Suse 8.1, x86
-Fedora core 4, amd64

Mac: The Mac version is testet on 
Mac OSX 10.3 and 10.4

If you want to use alistem_plot. Test if GD module is installed by writing:
perl -e 'use GD;', on a commandline, if you get an error message GD isn't installed.
You can get instructions for installation here: http://search.cpan.org/~lds/GD-2.35/GD.pm.
NB! It is possible to run sarse without GD, but there will come some error messages if you
try to run .

Installation
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Single User Installation 
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Here we describe how to install sarse in your home directory

Go to you home directory
cd ~
tar xpzf <download-directory>/sarse-<version>.tar.gz

On linux
echo -e '\nPATH=$PATH:~/sarse-<version>/bin' >> .bashrc
source .bashrc

On mac
echo -e '\nPATH=$PATH:~/sarse-<version>/bin' >> .bash_profile
source .bash_profile

.bashrc and .bash_profile are system files located in the users home directory.

System Wide Installation
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The example here asume you have root priviledges, and wan't to install sarse in /usr/local:

cd /usr/local
tar xpzf <download-directory>/sarse-<version>.tar.gz

The installation directory is called SARSE-HOME, in the rest of the document.

Then you add sarse to an existing bin directory in the standard path, /usr/local/bin
This way all users wil be able to start sarse easily from anywhere

cd /usr/local/bin
ln -s /usr/local/sarse-<version>/bin/SARSE


Starting the program
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To run the program simply write 'SARSE' anywhere 

