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Installing Scamper on your SPOT Account

Scamper is one of the core tools in our project and as such, its probably a good idea for you to have your own copy of it to play around with. The following instructions are here to help you get set up with your own build.

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$ ./configure --prefix=/home/your_unix_username/scamper_build

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[by default the command 'make install' will install all the files in '/usr/local/bin', etc., but since we want to be able to modify the source code in our home directories separately and test run our changes, we each need to install scamper into our own home directory. This is what the --prefix argument helps with and the path we specify is where the executables will be placed.]

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[by default the command 'make install' will install all the files in '/usr/local', etc., but since we want to be able to modify the source code in our home directories separately and test run our changes, we each need to install scamper into our own home directory. This is what the --prefix argument helps with and the path we specify is where the executables will be placed.]

$ make

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Step 4. Make Install

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Go ahead and install Scamper, you will need to have sudo privileges to go through this step, which will also be needed for most of the scamper commands anyways so you will probably want to ask Dan about getting access to that.

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Go ahead and install Scamper, you won't need to have sudo privileges to go through this step because are only installing scamper on our own home directory, but we will need sudo for most of the scamper commands anyways so you will probably want to ask Dan about getting access to that.

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$ sudo make install

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$ make install

[places the binary into the correct folders]

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