Installation

Here I give an overview, how to compile the C libraries necessary to run the FLUX CAPACITOR. To give you an idea of the program structure, the main program itself is written in Java and constitutes the flux.jar part of the downloaded package. Consequently, FLUX will start successfully on any computer with a Java Virtual Machine installed -- supporting the required compliance level, i.e., JDK1.5 for version 1.0b -- refer to the corresponding package description for details.

As mentioned earlier, FLUX CAPACITOR uses a set of linear constraints to formalize signal separation of overlapping transcripts as an optimization problem. The third party program lp_solve, an implementation of state-of-the-art linear program solving techniques, finds the optimal solution under these constraints. Hence it is necessary to have a compilation of the C-sources for lp_solve and the corresponding Java-native interface for running the capacitor.

If you find your operating system and architecture supported in the list of downloadable packages, the following steps are not necessary. In this case, ensure that the corresponding shell script of your downloaded package (i.e., flush.bat respectively flush.sh) is executable, and run it specifying the respective FLUX module you want to work with, e.g., ./flush capacitor. Refer to the "Getting Started" pages of the corresponding module to get more information about specific parameters. 

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