Installation

Standard Installation

Follow the instructions below for your operating system.

Microsoft Windows

When the download is finished, double-click on the Amira-Avizo Software installer and follow the instructions. Note that administrator rights are required.
In the Select Components section, specify the desired installation type:

• Typical installation installs the standard component of the software.
• Developer installation adds developer files and binaries files for debugging (Amira 3D Pro Edition is needed).
• Custom installation lets you choose the component to install.

After selecting the installation type, follow the Amira-Avizo Software installation instructions.

Linux

When the download is finished, go to the directory where the Amira-Avizo Software installer is and open a terminal window.

1. Add execution rights to the file ./Amira-XXX-Linux64-gccYY.bin by entering chmod a+x ./Amira-XXX-Linux64-gccYY.bin in the command line.
2. Enter: sudo ./Amira-XXX-Linux64-gccYY.bin (XXX denotes the product version of Amira and YY the compiler version) in the command line.
3. Click Next and press Enter.
4. In the Select Destination Folder, choose the Amira-Avizo Software installation destination.
5. In Select Components, choose components:
   • Main / Runtime files to install Amira-Avizo Software
   • Developer files to install developer files and binaries files for the developer to debug
     Note: You must have an Amira-Avizo Software 3D Pro Edition for this option.
6. Click Next and press Enter to finalize the installation.
7. You can now launch the software with this command:
   /usr/local/AmiraAvizo3D/XXX/bin/Amira3D
    or /usr/local/AmiraAvizo3D/XXX/bin/Avizo3D
   
   Adapt the path if you have not used the default path.
8. At this point, you may have an error regarding a missing license as the product has not been activated.
   Refer to the procedure provided in your delivery email or our online documentation for the steps to follow depending on your license.

Silent Installation

Amira-Avizo Software allows silent installation via the command line on both Windows and Linux. Silent installation installs the software with the default parameters.

Note that there is no option to automate the floating licensing setup on client machines, but you can easily create the client license file and the environmental variable ASGLMD_LICENSE_FILE that points to this file.

For example, you can create the license file in the Avizo folder “share\license” under the name license.dat with these lines:

SERVER <server_hostname> ANY <port_number>

USE_SERVER

Where:

• <server_hostname> is the hostname or IP address of your server machine,
• <port_number> is the TCPIP port used by the server Imadmin/Imgrd for communicating with client machines (be careful to configure the firewall on each client machine for opening this port.)

Windows

To install Amira-Avizo Software as a silent installation:

1. Open a Windows command prompt as administrator (This procedure does not work from an Unix shell).
2. Navigate to the Amira installer folder.
3. In the command prompt, enter:
   Amira-XXX-Windows64-VCYY.exe /VERYSILENT /SUPRESSMSGBOXES /NORESTART /NOCANCEL /KEEPEXISTINGPATHPOLICY  /DIR=installPath
   Note: XXX denotes the product version of Amira-Avizo Software and YY the compiler version.

Note that the option /KEEPEXISTINGPATHPOLICY permanently disables the Windows maximum path limit (260 characters) and requires administrator privileges. You can remove this command if you do not want to disable this limit.

The installation begins after the line is entered.

Silent installation does not install the Thermo Fisher License Manager. You can find the TLM installer in the folder share\license\TLM located in the Amira-Avizo Software installation directory for manual installation.

Linux

With the silent argument, the installer is in silent mode and does not ask you for any confirmation or question. All needed information is expected in the command line.

Open a terminal and run the Amira-Avizo Software installer with the following command line:

./Amira-XXX-Linux64-gccYY.bin — –silent –eula-ok –dir install_dir

Command line explanations follow.

• Use the double dash — with no keyword preceding the entire set of arguments.
• If you are in the silent mode, the EULA must be accepted by using mandatory command-line argument –eula-ok.
• Modify the installation directory with the command-line argument –dir install_dir, so that the product is unpacked in the install_dir / product / version directory. You can set absolute path or path relative to installer script location.
• By default, the silent installer only unpacks the runtime of Amira-Avizo Software. For the developer installation, add command-line argument –dev-install.

Uninstallation

To uninstall Amira-Avizo Software from your machine:

• On Microsoft Windows, remove Amira-Avizo Software with the standard Add or remove programs
• On Linux open a terminal and run this command line, replacing install_dir with the location of the Amira-Avizo Software install:

rm -rf install_dir

CAUTION: This command irretrievably removes all contents of the chosen folder.

Remove custom Python environments

With Amira-Avizo Software, you can install custom Python environments via the Python menu. If you wish to delete these environments, on Microsoft Windows they are stored in the folder C:\Users\UserName.edm\envs and on Linux in the folder $HOME/.edm.

Remove custom elements

If you have installed custom elements, such as add-ons from the Xtra Library, you may also wish to remove these from your system. The default installation directory for Xtras on Windows is %APPDATA%\Thermo Fisher Scientific\Xtras\Amira-Avizo\<Amira-Avizo-Version>. On Linux, the directory is /home/<username>/.config/Thermo Fisher Scientific/Xtras/Amira-Avizo/<Amira-Avizo-Version>.