Admin Installation Instructions
Visual Studio Code
Three scenarios
- Never Installed
- Download the VSCode System installer for Windows from here
- Install in admin mode (Right-click the exe file and install as admin)
- "User Installer" Installed
- Make sure you uninstall the existing installation from the Add/Remove programs in the Control Panel
- "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
- 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.
- 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
- Launch Pumas using the Desktop Icon.
- 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)
- Wait until the license information is printed and subsequently the REPL starts.
- 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.
- Launch VSCode and install “Julia for VSCode” extension from VSCode marketplace. Instruction details can be found here
- 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
- In the Command Palette, type Julia: Start REPL and hit Enter when the selection is highlighted.
- 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.
- 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:
- Download the zip file file that was sent as an attachment in the email along with this document
- Extract the zip file and place it in a location that will document installation qualification.
- Open VSCode
- 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.
- Start REPL from the command palette to start Pumas
- Right-click on extracted folder in your VSCode workspace and select
Julia: Change to this Directory
- Click on the Readme.md file and read the instructions
- 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.