MicroControl:Installation

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Installation

Client side

Client will be supported on both windows and linux

Windows

  1. Download portable python package from here and extract it say c:\uClient
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  1. Get the latest source code. Instructions on updating source code and the descriptions of various source branches are uClient::Instructions to get latest source
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For linux

These are suggestive instructions tested on Ubuntu Lucid (10.04).

  • Please make sure following packages are installed
    1. Python 2.6+
    2. wxPython
    3. vtk
    4. svn (to get latest source code from central repository)
  • Get the latest source code
svn co https://www.kitware.com/svn/Connectome/RemoteClient/trunk uClient

Server Side

It is assumed that only Windows drivers are provided for Zeiss microscopes and

  1. Register the ActiveX control with windows

Pre-requisites for Client

(Following pre-requisites are already included in the download. But are essential if you want to create a custom environment)

  • Python 2.6.x (2.6.1) included
  • VTK
  • wxPython
  • cElementTree