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Introduction

This tutorial demonstrates how to download Webnucleo's distribution of wn_matrix. It assumes you are in a Linux or Unix environment. If you are using a different operating system, please adjust the following instructions as appropriate . (Microsoft windows users may wish to use Cygwin, a linux/unix-like environment for Windows. To install Cygwin, please see the following blog post.)

Create Modules Directory

If you do not already have a modules directory, create one. An appropriate location might be ~/modules, so type

cd ~

This gets you to your home directory. Now type

mkdir modules

This command creates a modules directory under your home directory.

Download the Tarball

Download the gzipped tarball for the latest release from the wn_matrix files page. (Other releases are available from that page as well under the wn_matrix link.) Place the tarball in your ~/modules directory.

Extract the Distribution

You now need to unzip the tarball. To do so, type

gunzip wn_matrix_x.tar.gz

where x is the version number of the release you downloaded. For example, if you downloaded wn_matrix_0.1.tar.gz, type

gunzip wn_matrix_0.1.tar.gz

Now extract the distribution by typing

tar xvf wn_matrix_x.tar

where again x is the version number you downloaded.

You may wish to clean up your ~/modules directory. To do so, type

rm wn_matrix_x.tar