Installing SOD

Download the tar.gz or zip of SOD, and unpack it. This will result in a directory structure like the following:

Installing Java

SOD uses Java 1.4 or later. You can find out what version of Java you have on your system by running 'java -version' at the command line. If your version is less than 1.4, go to Java's website for a more recent version.

Setting SOD_HOME

To finish installing SOD the SOD_HOME environmental variable needs to be set and SOD's bin directory needs to be added to the PATH. SOD's scripts expect SOD_HOME to be set so they can find SOD's libraries.

Unix-like systems

We'll assume you know how to set an enviromental variable. Add one named SOD_HOME pointing to the sod-2.1.1 directory that came out of the SOD distribution. Then add ${SOD_HOME}/bin to your PATH variable.

Windows

In Windows 2000 and later, environmental variables are set in Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Environment Variables. Click New under User variables and type SOD_HOME into the Variable name field and the directory you unzipped SOD into in the Variable value field. If you unzipped it directly onto your C drive, the Variable value would be C:\sod-2.1.1.

Next, add SOD_HOME/bin to your system's path. Open Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Environment Variables as when you entered SOD_HOME. If an entry with name PATH exists, append ;%SOD_HOME%\bin to its value. Otherwise, create a new variable PATH and set it to %SOD_HOME%\bin.

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