This page contains links to the binary distributions of SLIME and the associated documentation packages.

Requirements

In order to run SLIME you must be running 15APR98 or a later version of AIPS under Solaris 2.5 or later on a SPARC-based workstation or Digital Unix 4.0 on an ALPHA/AXP-based workstation. If you are running under Solaris then the FORTRAN 77 runtime libraries libF77.so.3 and libM77.so.2 must be installed.

You will also need the GNU gzip package to uncompress the downloaded files.

What to Download

You should download the binary package for your workstation type. By default, SLIME is configured to use on-line help files from NRAO. These may be slow to load so you may also want to download a copy of the on-line manual. A printable PostScript copy of the manual is also available from this page. Follow the instructions provided with each link.

Note that the installation instructions in the manual refer to an earlier version of SLIME and are not applicable to the current binary distribution: ignore them.

Files to Download

SLIME for Solaris/SPARC (739 kbytes)

This is a compressed tar file containing the essential components of SLIME.
Uncompress this file using gunzip and unpack the contents. This will create a new directory. Change to this directory and run the KornShell script install.ksh using the AIPS manager's account, first making sure that you have run $CDTST. This will install the executable and the help file in your current AIPS areas and create directories under $AIPS_ROOT that hold the application defaults file and a set of bitmaps. If you have more than one version of AIPS installed, you may type $CDNEW or $CDOLD and re-run install.ksh as required.

SLIME for Digital UNIX/ALPHA(893 kBytes)

This is a compressed tar file containing the essential components of SLIME.
Uncompress this file using gunzip and unpack the contents. This will create a new directory. Change to this directory and run the KornShell script install.ksh using the AIPS manager's account, first making sure that you have run $CDTST. This will install the executable and the help file in your current AIPS areas and create directories under $AIPS_ROOT that hold the application defaults file and a set of bitmaps. If you have more than one version of AIPS installed, you may type $CDNEW or $CDOLD and re-run install.ksh as required.

On-Line Help (529 kbytes)

This is a compressed tar file containg the on-line help files for SLIME.
Uncompress this file using gunzip and unpack it in the place where you wish to install the on-line help files. I recommend that you install them in an area that is accessible via http. This will create a new directory. Edit the file $AIPS_ROOT/app_defaults/Slime which was created when you ran the installation script for the binary package: remove the semicolon from the line that defines Slime.helpPrefix and change the value of Slime.helpPrefix to a URL that refers to slime.html in the directory that was created when you unpacked the help files.

PostScript Manual (179 kbytes)

This is a compressed PostScript file containing the manual for SLIME.
Uncompress this file using gunzip.