Installing Stagecast Creator and Stagecast Player on a Unix machine.

1.      Log in to your Unix machine with an account that has root level access.

2.      First verify that Java, version 1.1 or later, is installed and in the PATH. You should be able to type java at the shell prompt and execute the Java Virtual Machine. If no program executes, you do not have Java installed on your computer or it is not in your PATH. You can download Java 1.3 from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/. Be sure to read the Java installation instructions before installing Java.

3.      Change the directory to the location of Creator. Example: cd /cdrom/cdrom0

4.      Copy the file creator.tar to a temporary directory, such as /tmp. Example: cp creator.tar /tmp

5.      Change to the directory you copied the file. cd /tmp

6.      Extract the contents of the file named creator.tar using the following command: tar xvf creator.tar. This creates 2 files, a compressed installation module, creator-2.tar.gz and the installation script, install.

7.      Use the install script. Type ./install /usr/local, where /usr/local is the directory in which to install the Stagecast software. This will extract the files necessary to run Creator and Player, including the configuration scripts used by the Stagecast software.

8.      For the Stagecast software to initialize properly, you must invoke a configuration script, either creator.sh.conf from a Bourne-like shell or creator.csh.conf from a C Shell-like shell. In your login script, append one of the following command lines (if this is the directory and version where Creator is installed):
For Bourne-like shells, add the following command line: . /usr/local/creator-2/creator.sh.conf
For C Shell-like shells, add the following command line: source /usr/local/creator-2/creator.csh.conf

If you are setting up a multi-user configuration, you must add the configuration script command line to the login script for all users who wish to have access to Stagecast Creator. One way to do this would be to modify the login script of a single user and copy this login script to the home directory of all other users.

You may want to additionally add Creator to the PATH environment variable.

9.      It is now safe to remove the files creator.tar, creator-2.tar.gz, and install (rm creator.tar; rm creator-2.tar.gz; rm install).

10.      If you modified your login script to run the configuration script and added Creator to the path. as prescribed, you can simply run Creator by typing creator at the command line after logging out and logging back in. Similarly, you can run Player by typing player at the command line.

     NOTE: When opening a tutorial lesson (Learn Creator) on some Unix configurations, you may see a "Stagecast Tutorial" window come up in front of the "Stagecast Creator" window. If this is the case, click on the "Stagecast Creator" window once to bring it forward so that you may view the lesson.

**NOTE** for Netscape Communicator 4.x: For installations of Netscape Navigator not in it's usual location (/usr/local), the environment variable MOZILLA_HOME may need to be properly set to Netscape's root directory. If you are having problems reading worlds in Navigator, this is the most likely cause. If the variable is not set (you can see if it is set using echo $MOZILLA_HOME), use a text editor to edit one of your log in scripts and add the MOZILLA_HOME variable.

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