Windows Desktop Installation Instructions

Admin Installation Instructions

Visual Studio Code

Three scenarios

  1. Never Installed
    • Download the VSCode System installer for Windows from here
    • Install in admin mode (Right-click the exe file and install as admin)
  2. "User Installer" Installed
    • Make sure you uninstall the existing installation from the Add/Remove programs in the Control Panel
  3. "System Installer" Installed
    • Make sure you check for updates and install

Close Visual Studio Code if it has been opened after installation

Pumas

Install Pumas Windows binary

  1. Click here to download the Pumas Installer binary and save the binary file to a location on your local machine. This file replaces the previous one.
  2. Start the Pumas binary as admin and install Pumas in admin mode, make sure you don’t disable Desktop and Start Menu Icon creation during installation.

Post installation steps

  1. Launch Pumas using the Desktop Icon.
  2. Choose enter license key and enter your license key. (Note: If you are upgrading your Pumas version, the license should already be registered and you don’t need to perform this step again)
  3. Wait until the license information is printed and subsequently the REPL starts.
  4. Ensure that the license information is printed with the correct term of your license validity, once the verification is done, you can close the REPL window.
  5. Launch VSCode and install “Julia for VSCode” extension from VSCode marketplace. Instruction details can be found here
  6. Open VSCode and Start the Command Palette by using either of these methods
    • Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl + Shift + P
    • Select the gear icon on the bottom left panel of VSCode and select Command Palette
  7. In the Command Palette, type Julia: Start REPL and hit Enter when the selection is highlighted.
  8. A julia REPL (console) will open up in the bottom pane where the license information should be printed first along with the Pumas startup message.
  9. Type using Pumas beside the julia> prompt and hit the return key. If no errors show up, installation is successful, and you are ready to use Pumas!

If IT does a system-wide installation, first-time usage by a non-admin user will need to execute the post installation steps.

Updating an active license

If you have received a new license key and would like to use that instead of an existing license key then call run the following command from the julia prompt

julia> PumasLicenseManager.activateLicenseFromTerminal()

You will then be asked to enter your new license key (including - symbol). After hitting enter, you should receive confirmation that the new license has been activated.

Installation and Operation Qualification

To qualify your installation, follow the steps below:

  1. Download the zip file file that was sent as an attachment in the email along with this document
  2. Extract the zip file and place it in a location that will document installation qualification.
  3. Open VSCode
  4. Add the extracted folder into the workspace. There are many ways to do this:
    • Drag and drop the extracted folder into the workspace
    • Open Command Palette (Ctrl + Shift + P) and type “Open Folder”
    • Select Open Folder and return. Then you navigate to the extracted folder on your laptop and it should get added to your workspace.
  5. Start REPL from the command palette to start Pumas
  6. Right-click on extracted folder in your VSCode workspace and select Julia: Change to this Directory
  7. Click on the Readme.md file and read the instructions
  8. IMPORTANT: Open the tests/Pumas-Automated-001.jl file and click on the Right facing triangle tab navigation which should read Run Active File in REPL. This will perform a suite of tests that will take about 10 minutes to run. Once completed and if successful, you should get a qualification report.
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Dover, DE 19901
Email: info@pumas.ai
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