To get a fully functional McStas installation on Unix systems, a few support applications are required. Essentially, you will need a C compiler, Perl and Perl-Tk, as well as a plotter such as Matlab, Scilab or PGPLOT. In the installer package, we supply a method to install PGPLOT and related perl modules - see step 4 below and also a method to download and install Scilab for Linux/Intel - see step 5
On Debian and Ubuntu systems, the
needed packages to install are perl-tk, pdl, gcc,
libc6-dev
(On Ubuntu you need to enable the 'universe' package
distribution in the file
/etc/apt/sources.list
.)
We also recommend to install octaga vrml viewer from
http://www.octaga.com/download_octaga.html.