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Hi all,

Having major headaches, even understanding where to start with the installation of telemac and Rubens.

I'm in IT, and am trying to support one of our users.

I understand that it's all perl based scripts, so I understand that Perl will be required on the machine - should we be using ActiveState perl, or the Open Source Strawberry Perl Package?

Is there a straightforward guide on getting Telemac installed and running on Windows - and then a guide on how to get Rubens
+ Matiesse running?

The Rubens + Matiesse guide that we managed to find on the website only seems to mention Unix enviroments and we have to try and get this all running on Windows XP.

If any more information is required to start helping, please let me know and I can provide anything you need.

Much appreciated any help at all.

Thanks in advance

Craig

Dear Craig

The Strawberry perl allow you to run all the telemac scripts but I think that will be equivalent with other perl program.

To install Matisse and Rubens, you just have to execute the setup program (available on the download page).

There is two ways to run Matisse and/or Rubens.
- You could add the path of the bin directory to your environment variable, and just run "matisse" in a command windows
- you could install the Fudaa-prepro interface. Configure the Telemac location in this interface and just click on the specific button (M icon).

Some complementary information
Matisse require Rubens running on background. That's why Matisse always launch Rubens before it's own execution. If Rubens is already running, you will have an error message.
Matisse use a temporary directory (temp in the bin directory). This directory should exist and it should be empty before running Matisse (matisse is cleaning this forder at the end of its run)

Regards
Christophe

Hello,

I’m not able to launch Matisse (I'm using Windows 7). Rubens apprears briefly in the task manager when I try and launch Matisse. The 'temp' folder in 'bin' exists and appears to be empty, as suggested.

This is the message I get on command line:

C:\TELEMAC>matisse –a
Reading file ‘config\MatisRubens.ini’ ... OK
Reading file ‘C:\TELEMAC\V5P9\config\sysprot.ini’ ...
Defining environment variables ... OK
mytmp=
Check for Rubens running ... OK (not running)
Starting Rubens ...
mytmp=PID: 3836
OK (PID= 3836
)
Starting Matisse ...
ERROR: Unable to launch Matisse
Execution stopped.
mytmp=PID: 3836
WARNING : Rubens did not stopped
Killing Rubens (pid= 3836)
)
Cleaning temporary files :
-1277730926_rub


Any help is greatly appreciated,
Thank you,

R Moore

Regarding above post:

I have now reinstalled for version 6.0 (I was using 5.9) and Matisse now seems to launch.

However, I initially got an error message saying something like:
''perl' is not a command/ cannot be found...' etc.

I can't see a 'perl' directory in version 6.0, so I just copied the 'perl' directory from my version 5.9 and it seems to work.

Is this ok? Or is there a new 'path' I need to put in environmental variables I don't know about? (I updated the path names for version 6.0).

Regards,

R Moore

Dear R Moore

In the version 5.9 and before Telemac was always distributed with perl directory.
Since the version 6.0, we indicate that perl is an external software, independant from Telemac. You should install perl before using Telemac (there is a link on the website to download a free perl software). the path is automatically updated by the perl setup, you didn't have to change it for this purpose. Nevertheless, you should add the path to TELEMAC 6.0.

Regards