The snark05 utilities were developed and tested using the open-source Qt/X11 API, version 3.3, obtained under QPL 1.0. Hence, Qt/X11 API version 3.3 (Qt4.0 is not backward compatible with 3.3) must be installed on your system.

You certainly need a C++ compiler, linker, and an implementation of the C++ Standard Template Library installed. (We used gcc 4.0.0 20050519 (Red Hat 4.0.0-8).) Again, these should come by default with Red Hat Fedora Core 4.

In addition, before you can compile, you need an installed copy of the snark05 programming system, which is not open-source. It MUST be installed as per the installation instructions mentioned on the snark05 website.

You can download the package containing snark05Input and snark05Display here.

NOTE: If you downloaded and installed these programs following earlier instructions, remove the old versions of the programs before continuing. They are probably located in /usr/local/include.

After downloading the package, you can install snark05 utilities with the following command sequence:

1. Before you install either software, and making sure that the Qt/X11 API is installed on your system, invoke the following command to make sure that the QTDIR environment variable is set correctly: If you get a line containing a path (like /usr/lib/qt-3.3) you can proceed to the next step. Otherwise set this variable to the location where Qt library can be found. Here is an example (in bash, the default shell for RedHat Linux) for setting the variable QTDIR: In general, this ought to be set correctly every time before snark05Display is used.

2. Change into the directory where you downloaded the snark05 utilities package.

3. Untar and unzip the package by typing the following at the command prompt:

4. Change into snark05Display directory

5. Before you run make for snark05Display& snark05Input, make sure that the value of SNARK05ROOT environment variable is set correctly and is pointing to the snark05 installation directory. To check use the following command:
It should print the directory where snark05 is installed.

6. Compile and install snark05Display by typing the following at the command prompt:

For linux/unix users
If a local install of SNARK05 was done, the su and exit steps above are not necessary.

For cygwin users

For all users

After a successful compilation and installation, the snark05Display executable can be found in the $SNARK05ROOT/bin directory. If this directory is in the $PATH, snark05Display can be invoked by any user from within any directory by simply typing at the command prompt: (provided that QTDIR is set properly in the user's environment).

NOTE: In cygwin you must use startx to execute both snark05Input & snark05Display. Type the following in the cygwin window:
A new window will pop up which should be used to execute snark05Input & snark05Display.


7. Change into snark05Input directory

8. Compile and install snark05Input by typing the following at the command prompt:

For linux/unix users
If a local install of SNARK05 was done, the su and exit steps above are not necessary.

For cygwin users

For all users

After a successful compilation, the snark05Input executable can be found in the $SNARK05ROOT/bin directory. If this directory is in the $PATH, snark05Input can be invoked by any user from within any directory by simply typing at the command prompt: (provided that QTDIR is set properly in the user's environment).

NOTE: In cygwin you must use startx to execute both snark05Input & snark05Display. Type the following in the cygwin window:
A new window will pop up which should be used to execute snark05Input & snark05Display.

To remove snark05Input or snark05Display, check that $SNARK05ROOT points to where snark05 was installed, change into the directory where you downloaded the snark05 utilities package, and then run the uninstall command appropriate for your computer. To remove snark05Display these are:

For linux/unix users
For cygwin users The instructions for removing snark05Input are identical, except that instead of "snark05Display" one needs to write "snark05Input" everywhere.

Ran Davidi currently maintains snark05Input and snark05Display on behalf of the DIG group. You may contact him with the understanding that no technical support is offered and there will be no manual for these utilities, or their installation.