ASCEND IV download

ASCEND IV Redhat RPM download releases 0.9

The only significant difference between these and CMU distributions is that these include the documentation already. We thank Steinar Hauan of NTNU (Trondheim) for contributing the Redhat 5 Linux rpms and the original text that became these instructions when we HTMLed it.

Redhat 5 binary distribution (2672k).

Redhat 5 source distribution for those do-it-yourself people (3672k).

Redhat 5 RPM instructions

Ensure you are running RedHat linux version 5.0 or higher. (This ascend rpm was compiled with GNU libc.)
Ensure you have installed packages "tk" and "tcl", both with a version number above 8.0.
Download the file ascend-0.9-1.i386.rpm.
As root, type "rpm --test -Uh ascend-0.9-1.i386.rpm" to check if the prerequisites^(*1) for ascend are met.
When the previous step completes without error messages, install ascend as root by typing "rpm -Uh ascend-0.9-1.i386.rpm".
While running the X window system, start ascend by typing "ascend" in any window. After installing for the first time, you might have to type "rehash" first or do "/usr/local/bin/ascend".
All ascend files will be found in

   /usr/local/bin/             script to start ascend
   /usr/local/lib/ascend-0.9/  most ascend files
   /usr/local/doc/ascend-0.9/  ascend documentation (pdf format)

(*1) Prerequisites (from "rpm -qp -R ascend-0.9-1.i386.rpm)

/usr/bin/perl
/bin/sh
libm.so.6
libdl.so.2
libc.so.6
libX11.so.6
ld-linux.so.2
tcl >= 8.0p2 (but not tested with 8.1)
tk >= 8.0p2 (but not tested with 8.1)

The source rpm is for those who want to build it as an rpm themselves. In the source rpm is a script, build.sh, that starts by running configure with proper arguments for linux. This should be even more easy than doing it from the regular UNIX sources.

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