GraphExpert Professional v1.2.0 documentation
To install on Windows platforms, simply run the installer, either from the command line or by double clicking it in the Windows explorer. The automated installer will start and guide you through the installatin process; just follow the on-screen prompts. GraphExpert Professional will install for all users (if you are the Administrator), or for you only (if you are not). This allows you to install GraphExpert Professional without any Administrator privileges.
The installer for Windows operating systems recognizes two command line switches: /S for silent installs, and /D=dirname to specify where the program should be installed. For example, in an environment where a system administrator would want to install the program silently to the directory “d:\sharedprogs”, one would do:
> GraphExpertPro-1.1.0-win32.exe /S /D=d:\sharedprogs
To install on an Apple Macintosh, double click the downloaded .zip archive. If this file is in your Downloads folder, the installation process will start immediately. Otherwise, a .pkg file will be created. In that case, run the .pkg file by double clicking it, and the installation process will then start. Then, follow the on-screen prompts to complete your installation.
GraphExpert Professional is not an Apple-signed application. Therefore, Gatekeeper (if you have OSX Mountain Lion or later) will complain about this fact. This behavior is normal, and it is safe to ignore the complaints from Gatekeeper.
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GraphExpert Professional is a 32-bit application, and as such, requires 32-bit libraries to be installed, and in some cases, the 32-bit libraries must be present even before the GraphExpert Professional installation process. If you are running a pure 64-bit Linux installation, you will likely have to install your distribution’s 32-bit compatibility libraries. Usually, you can install the 32-bit version of zlib, gtk libraries, and standard c++ library, and that will be enough (on Debian/Ubuntu distributions, this is packages: ia32-libs-gtk, lib32z1, and lib32stdc++6).
To install on a Linux machine, first download the .run file from the GraphExpert Professional web site. Usually, this file will not download with the correct permissions to be run directly. So, give the file execute permissions and then run the downloaded package directly from the command line:
% chmod +x GraphExpertPro-1.1.0-Linux.run
% ./GraphExpertPro-1.1.0-Linux.run
Alternatively, you can double-click the downloaded .run file in your file manager, but before you do this, you must give the file execute permissions by right clicking on the file, selecting Permissions, and checking Give file executable permissions (or Allow executing file as program) before you can run the file directly from the file manager.
Then, follow the on-screen prompts to complete your installation.
GraphExpert Professional has been tested on the following Linux distributions. If a particular distribution is not listed, that does not necessarily mean that the application will not run properly; as long as the distribution is reasonably recent, the software should work with no problems.
In the Linux arena, there are two primary desktop systems: GNOME and KDE. GraphExpert Professional integrates well with GNOME, offering a desktop icon, appropriate menu entries and icons, file association between .gxp files, and icons for .gxp files. Under KDE, desktop integration is not fully developed. Desktop icons and menu entries are created, but the icons for these do not yet work. File association also works, but the icons for .gxp files are not yet functional.
To run the software from the command line, run the gepro.sh script. For example, if GraphExpert Professional was installed in your home directory, the command would be:
~/GraphExpertPro/gepro.sh
If you want to evaluate GraphExpert Professional on a trial basis, you can start a trial period by selecting Help->Activate Trial Period; note that an Internet connection is required for the starting of the trial period, but is not required once the trial period has been activated.
Note
If you use an authenticating proxy for Internet access, please set the appropriate proxy settings in Edit->Preferences->Advanced (see Proxy settings).
This trial period is active for approximately 30 days from activation date. During this period, all features of GraphExpert Professional are accessible. When the software is out of its trial period (either before or after), most output functions are disabled, and a watermark appears on all graphs.
After evaluation via the trial period, please consider purchasing the software at http://www.graphexpert.com/order.
To purchase GraphExpert Professional, visit http://www.graphexpert.com/order, and choose the product that you would like to purchase.
If you have purchased a GraphExpert Professional license, will received the license information via email. Licenses are fulfilled within 24 hours of receipt; average turnaround time between purchase and license fulfillment is 2 hours.
Proceed to Help->Enter License, and paste the entire email into the box. The fields below the box (Name, Company, etc.) will update, and you can then press OK to complete the process.
If you are not sure how to copy and paste the email, highlight the text of the email with your mouse (click and drag), and press Ctrl+C (Cmd+C on a Macintosh). Then, just press the Paste button in the Help->Enter License window.
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