This toolkit is designed to run on generic Unix. However, due to
the difficulties in supporting the possible range of
configurations, we are testing it, and providing detailed
installation instructions, only for Linux Ubuntu 9.10. Note: as of 2.0, Cygwin is no
longer supported, because Python in Cygwin does not include sqlite
bindings, which are now required for MAT workspaces.
This toolkit depends on a number of external tools which must be
installed before you install MAT. For the Unix version, they are:
MAT is primarily a Unix-based tool, so many of the conventions
used here will come from Unix.
We'll show command lines in fixed-width type, in boldface; the
system output in response will be in normal face:
% pwd
/home/user/Desktop
Throughout the documentation, we'll refer to the location of the
MAT source tree as the variable MAT_PKG_HOME, as in the following
command:
% cd $MAT_PKG_HOME
If you received this distribution as a tar or a zip file,
MAT_PKG_HOME is the directory src/MAT inside the unpacked zip
file. If you checked this distribution out of CVS, it will be the
root directory you checked out via "cvs checkout MAT".
All command lines in this documentation are Unix command lines,
unless otherwise indicated. The Unix shell assumed is bash. To set
the MAT_PKG_HOME variable, do this:
% export MAT_PKG_HOME=<dir>
where <dir> is the appropriate value for MAT_PKG_HOME.
In some cases, you'll see a backslash followed immediately by a
line break in command-line examples:
% bin/MATEngine --task 'Named Entity' --workflow Demo --steps 'zone,tokenize' \
--input_file $PWD/sample/ne/resources/data/raw/voa2.txt --input_file_type raw \
--output_file ./voa2_txt.json --output_file_type mat-json
These backslashes and line breaks are not required parts of the
command line; they're present simply to enable us to present the
command line in a reasonable width. If you type them in the bash
shell, they'll work just fine; you'll get a continuation prompt
(">") and you can keep typing. But you can omit them.
MAT may be installed in
directories whose paths contain spaces. If you do this,
you'll likely have to wrap double-quotes around any references to
MAT_PKG_HOME or subdirectories thereof:
% cd "$MAT_PKG_HOME"
% ls "$PWD"
If you don't do this, you'll likely encounter bizarre behavior
due to the path being expanded and split into command-line tokens
according to the whitespace in the path.
Once these packages are installed, you may proceed with the
installation, as follows:
% cd <toolkit_dir>
% ./install.sh
During the installation, you might be prompted for various paths
and locations which the toolkit requires.
When the installation is complete, your runtime environment will be
configured for you. The installed directory is not relocatable;
you must rerun the installer if you move the installation.
If you want MAT to use a new version of Java or Python because
the Java or Python on your machine has been upgraded and the old
version is no longer present, just rerun the installer. The
installer will find the updated versions and reconfigure your
tools.
If you want to move the MAT installation from one location to
another on the same machine, just move the toplevel MAT directory
- it's completely self-contained. If you want to move the MAT
installation to another machine, the safest thing to do is
reinstall on that new machine.