Installations of the 2021 GEOframe environment and related information

 In this post you will find all what is requested to run the GEOframe models and tools.  GEOframe requires Python and Java and it is built upon the OMS3 infrastructure. However, you are not requested or assumed to know them for using GEOframe. We will communicate the appropriate notions during the classes but the interested can find plenty of courses on the web.

A presentation was prepared to explain what to install and how. You can find it by clicking on the figure below.

Installations of OMS and GEOframe environment 2021.1 from Ri Rigon on Vimeo.

An installation of the OMS3/GEOframe environment 2020.1 - "Rossano" from Ri Rigon on Vimeo.

For any problem contact us through the mailing list https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/geoframe-winter-schools. 

What is actually installed and why

• Java. GEOframe and OMS are written in Java and they require to have installed Java on your computer. Here you can find instructions to install Java on your computer.  Java JDK is installed using the Anaconda package manager. So, essentially you do not have to take care of it.  If you want to do it differently,  please note that you need the Java Development Toolkit (JDK) installed not the Java Runtime Environment (JRE).  You can watch several videos for Windows here but Windows user can follow our previous blogpost.  For Macs, look at here. Googling you can get more videos and information. 
• OMS v 3 Console. It is possible to use Docker to execute the programs but, after the experience of the last year with Docker installations on Windows, we preferred to use directly the Console. The OMS system installation traditional information can be found here: https://alm.engr.colostate.edu/cb/wiki/16961 and https://alm.engr.colostate.edu/cb/wiki/17107.
  

• To start the Console from Windows, just click on the .bat file
• To start the Console from Mac OSX or Linux, open a Terminal and execute:
• % ./console.sh &
• The "&" just free the command line back and gives it back to you. 

• During the School we will use Jupyter and Python 3 for data management and visualisation. It would be great if you could arrive with Jupyter installed.
• The post at this link contains all the information needed. For installation of the software, we suggest Anaconda. 
• To understand what a Jupyter notebook is about, please see its manual. However, we will use Jupyterlab.  (You can see a YouTube video about here).  One can think that Jupyter was heavily based on the look-and-feel of Mathematica notebooks: but Jupyterlab is a step ahead to something different. Installing Anaconda, you also have already installed Jupyter notebook. You can open Jupyter lab by the Anaconda Console, or issuing the command  Jupyter lab at a terminal (called DOS prompt in Windows).

• The manual of Jupyterlab is here.
• BTW, it will be useful to have also a GIS of your choice installed. We suggest QGIS.

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