This page provides instructions for downloading and installing the Free Trial Version of Datasqueeze for Linux. To complete the installation you will need to have superuser (administrator) privileges. You may run this version for up to ten days before purchasing a registered version. If, after downloading and running the trial version, you decide you want a upgrade to the full-featured registered version,please request an access key-this is all you will need to make the upgrade. Datasqueeze is also available for Macintosh, Windows, or Unix-like operating systems..

Installing datasqueeze

• Click here to download the installation package.
• Locate where your browser downloaded the file called ds_installation.tar, and change to that directory. (Some browsers may uncompress the file, producing a folder called ds_installation. If so, ignore the next step).
• type
  tar xf ds_installation.tar
  This should produce a new directory called ds_installation. Change to that directory (cd ds_installation).
• This installation assumes that the java application (which you may have installed in a previous step) lives in /usr/bin/java. To see if this is the case, type
  ls -ls /usr/bin/java
  If you get something that looks reasonable, you are ready to go. Otherwise, you will need to locate Java on your system.. Then edit the second line of the file called datasqueeze to change /usr/bin/java to the true location. (See comments above regarding multiple versions of Java.)
• Type:
  sudo sh ds_install
  You will be prompted for the superuser (administrator) password.
• To start the application, type
  datasqueeze
  or
  datasqueeze file
  from whatever directory you might be working in. Here file is the name of an optional file to open on startup; if has suffix .txt Datasqueeze will attempt to treat this as a Batch file, otherwise it will treat it as a 2D data file.
• When you first run, you will be asked to enter an access code and to agree to some legal stuff. If you do not have an access code, you can run the Trial version, which will run for up to ten days. If, after downloading and running the trial version, you decide you want to upgrade to the full-featured registered version, please request an access key-this is all you will need to make the upgrade. If you have done the system-wide installation, you will need to give the access code to each potential user of the application. Note that your licence does not permit you to make Datasqueeze available to a large user base from a central server. If it is to be loaded on a central server and accessed remotely it should be only for the use of a small research group (5 users or less).
• An onboard help menu and pdf manual provide additional instructions--new users are strongly urged to read through the help file, which includes a short tutorial, before using the program.
• If Datasqueeze refuses to run at all, it is likely that your current version of Java (or at least your current default version) is too old. Go back to the instructions on installing Java on your system.
• If things do not initially work as you expect, check out our FAQ page or contact us.

Contents

• A file called datasqueeze_manual.pdf. This is the Manual --you could copy it anywhere convenient or print it out if you wanted.
• A file called datasqueeze.jar. This contains the compiled Java code.
• A folder called samples. Within it are:
  • Files called agbe_calib.raw and sample.raw. These are "typical" Bruker-Siemens data files for you to play with.
  • A file called agbe.std. This is a typical Bruker calibration file, for silver beheneate, which you could also use as a template.

Installing the Java Platform