You may go directly to the step-by-step guide for installing this product or you may review the instructions below:

Overview of the GUST Installation

Due to current U.S. government export restrictions, the domestic version of GUST is only allowed to be used within the U.S. and by American citizens.

Obtain a Password

You will need a password before downloading. Please call AeroSoft at (540) 557-1908 or email us at support@aerosft.com to get your password. Please include in your request your name, company, mailing address, phone number and email address.

Download the Common and Platform files.

Downloading files can be done under Downloads (step 2). You will need to download the common file (platform independent) and a platform file (machine specific binaries).

Untar the archive

The GUST distribution is delivered as gzipped tar files. The gunzip and tar commands should be available on all UNIX machines.

To decompress the archive you need to execute the following commands on each download file:

gunzip common.tar.gz

tar -xf common.tar

This process will create the AeroSoft directory.

Set Environment Variables and Path.

(This is for csh users. See your manpages for instructions on how to use other shells.)

setenv AEROSOFT_HOME [directory_name]/AeroSoft
setenv PATH $PATH:$AEROSOFT_HOME/bin

Then create the logical link from the AeroSoft/bin-platform directory to AeroSoft/bin (which was added to the path). If you are using LAM, then create logical links to AeroSoft/lam-6.5/bin and add to path (see step 4 of the download process for more info).

Find Your Machine's Hostcode.

Run the asi_elmadmin command located in the $AEROSOFT_HOME/bin directory.

$AEROSOFT_HOME/bin/asi_elmadmin -c

If you have $AEROSOFT_HOME/bin in your $PATH this would be:

asi_elmadmin -c

The asi_elmadmin program will prompt you for a number of hosts that will run the license server. Unless your site administrator tells you otherwise, use the default (=1). The asi_elmadmin program will print a hostcode for your machine.

If you didn't install the AeroSoft product directory in the default directory /usr/local then you'll need to tell asi_elmadmin where to find its keys. This is done this way:

asi_elmadmin -c -e $AEROSOFT_HOME/Keys

After printing your hostcode, asi_elmadmin will also prompt you for a key. You may break out of the program at this point (in most shells, press control and C keys together at the same time).

Make sure you have noted the hostcode! You'll need it for the next step.

Request a License Key.

To request a license key to give to asi_elmadmin, complete the form provided in Step 6 and click the button labeled "Request a License". We will process your application as soon as possible.

Install the Key.

If you quit asi_elmadmin as suggested before, run it:

asi_elmadmin -c -e $AEROSOFT_HOME/Keys

Enter the same number of servers as you did in "Find Your Machine's Host Code". If you did not quit asi_elmadmin, bring up the shell with that command running.

At the prompt, "Please enter your key:", enter the key sent to you.

Run the License Manager.

Now that you have the key installed, you need to start the license manager, asi_elmd . This program must be running before you can use the majority of the AeroSoft tools.

To launch the asi_elmd, execute the following command:

$AEROSOFT_HOME/bin/asi_elmd -s0 -l [log_file]

Or, if you have $AEROSOFT_HOME/bin in your $PATH:

asi_elmd -s0 -l [log_file]

The -s0 option sets the startup time to zero after after the daemon is launched. Log_file is the name of a file where you want asi_elmd to record license usage and errors messages. A suggested filename for the log_file is $AEROSOFT_HOME/log.asi_elmd.

If you did not install the AeroSoft product in the default location, you'll have to tell asi_elmd where to find the Keys directory:

asi_elmd -s0 -e $AEROSOFT_HOME/Keys -l [log_file]

The User's Manual and Sample Cases.

Documentation is located in the AeroSoft/GUST/Doc directory. Sample test cases are located in AeroSoft/GUST/Samples.

Your installation is now complete!

AeroSoft, Inc. 2000 Kraft Drive, Suite 1400 Blacksburg, VA 24060 (540) 557-1900 Fax (540) 557-1919 Email questions@aerosft.com