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 === Installation ===
-The program can be downloaded, by academic users, as Qt5 binary for Linux [https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pub/linux_bin/xdsgui 64bit] (compiled on RHEL6) and as Qt4 binary for [https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pub/xdsgui_qt4.dmg Mac] (works on OSX 10.6 and up). A Qt4 version is available for [https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pub/linux_bin/xdsgui.qt4 old Linux distributions] and a Qt5 version for [https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pub/mac_bin/xdsgui_qt5.dmg latest MacOS] is also available; these may have to be renamed.
+The program can be downloaded, by academic users, as Qt5 binary for Linux [https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pub/linux_bin/xdsgui 64bit] (compiled on RHEL6) and as Qt4 binary for [https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pub/xdsgui_qt4.dmg Mac] (works on OSX 10.6 and up). A Qt4 version is available for [https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pub/linux_bin/xdsgui.qt4 old Linux distributions] and a Qt5 version for [https://{{SERVERNAME}}/pub/mac_bin/xdsgui_qt5.dmg latest MacOS] is also available.
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 The easiest way to install XDSGUI, and all XDSGUI-related programs is documented in [[Installation]].
-Alternatively, in case of '''Linux''', after downloading the binary file, its name should be changed to "xdsgui" and then be made executable ("chmod a+x xdsgui"). The binary may then be copied into e.g. the directory /usr/local/bin by the administrator, or to the $HOME/bin directory by the user. Any other directory should be suitable as long as it is in your $PATH. In case of a '''Mac''', the DMG file may be installed in the usual way, by double-clicking it and dragging the icon into the Applications folder. '''It is advantageous to place a symbolic link, like'''
+If you want to install manually, in case of Linux, after downloading the binary file, its name should be changed to "xdsgui" and then be made executable ("chmod a+x xdsgui"). The binary may then be copied into e.g. the directory /usr/local/bin by the administrator, or to the $HOME/bin directory by the user. Any other directory should be suitable as long as it is in your $PATH. In case of MacOS, the DMG file may be installed in the usual way, by double-clicking it and dragging the icon into the Applications folder. It is advantageous to place a symbolic link, like
   sudo ln -s /Applications/xdsgui.app/Contents/MacOS/xdsgui /usr/local/bin/xdsgui
 '''and to start the GUI from a terminal window, by typing xdsgui'''. In a similar way, XDS-viewer should be put into the $PATH under the name xds-viewer, e.g. using
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 ==== Libraries and software that the program depends on ====
-In case of '''Fedora''' or Redhat Enterprise Linux ('''RHEL'''; same as CentOS) distributions, you may have to
- yum install qt qt-x11
+If on Linux you get an error message like
-if you get the error message
   xdsgui: error while loading shared libraries: libQtGui.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
-or similar for libQtCore.so.4 or libQtOpenGL.so.4 .
+or similar for libQtCore.so.4 or libQtOpenGL.so.4 , you may rather want to install the Qt5 version which is now the default.
-RedHat Enterprise Linux 8 (CentOS 8) does not provide the needed libraries for the Qt4-based xdsgui binary. For such new distributions, you should install the new Qt5 xdsgui binary linked above.
-'''Ubuntu''' needs the libglu1-mesa package if you get the error message
+Procedures for identifying and installing missing libraries are shown in the [[Installation#tools_and_helper_programs_for_generate_XDS.INP_and_XDSGUI.2C_and_libraries|Installation]] article.
- xdsgui: error while loading shared libraries: libGLU.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
-On the '''Mac''' (e.g. Yosemite) one needs [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id497799835?ls=1&mt=12 Xcode] installed. Otherwise one may obtain a popup error “You can’t open the application because it is not supported on this type of Mac.” After installation of Xcode, run the <code>strings</code> command (once) and accept the license agreement!
+On the '''Mac''' (e.g. Yosemite) one needs the (free) [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/xcode/id497799835?ls=1&mt=12 Xcode] command line tools installed. Otherwise one may obtain a popup error like “You can’t open the application because it is not supported on this type of Mac.”
 == Known bugs, problems and workarounds ==