As we strive to make the FDS and Smokeview experience consistent across different operating systems, the bundle downloads for Linux and Mac now make use of an installation script to install the FDS-SMV programs, documentation, and example files. The benefits of the installer script are 1) a consistent menu-driven interface to install FDS and Smokeview to a user-specified location, and 2) automatic setup of shortcuts for the "fds" and "smokeview" commands, which is consistent with the Windows version of FDS and Smokeview.
The default installation location for Linux is /home/<username>/FDS/FDS6, and the default install location for Mac OS X is /Applications/FDS/FDS6. This location can be modified during the installation process. Also, the drag-and-drop launcher program is still available on Mac OS X by extracting the FDS-SMV_OSX_Launcher.app.zip archive located in /Applications/FDS/FDS6/bin/.
Detailed instructions on how to install FDS and Smokeview upon downloading the .sh installer bundles can be found on the Wiki Pages:
http://code.google.com/p/fds-smv/wiki/Installation_Notes
Installation notes for Linux:
http://code.google.com/p/fds-smv/wiki/Linux_Installation_Notes
Installation notes for Mac:
http://code.google.com/p/fds-smv/wiki/Mac_Installation_Notes
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This blog covers topics related to the development and maintenance of the Fire Dynamics Simulator and Smokeview software. It is intended only for broadcasts by the developers to interested subscribers. General discussion and questions concerning FDS and Smokeview should be directed to the FDS-SMV Discussion Group.
