SPARK Installation Instructions

Module Name: SPARK
Organization(s): SRI International
Author/Contact(s): Ken Conley

This document applies to SPARK version 0.8.x

Installation (Developer's Only)

Running SPARK from CVS comes with some extra requirements:

Windows/Unix/Mac OS X (cvs.ai.sri.com tree only):

  1. Checkout the 'spark' module from CVS (server: cvs.ai.sri.com, cvsroot=/homedir/cvs/cvsroot, ext protocol)
  2. Compile spark using ant (type 'ant' in the root directory of the module)
  3. Set the JYTHON_HOME location (e.g. c:\jython\). You have two options for setting this. You can either define it as an environment variable (on Windows, use Control Panel->System->Advanced->Environment Variables), or you can edit spark/bin/spark.bat (or on Unix/Mac OS X edit spark/bin/spark) and specify the Jython location where noted in the file.
  4. Set the SPARK_MODULES location. For more information on this, please see "The spark_modules directory" and "Setting the location of your SPARK modules" in the Running SPARK documentaiton.
  5. Optional: it is recommended that you add spark/bin to your system path.

You should now be ready to start running SPARK.

NOTE: If you are going to be using SPARK with the CALO Desktop, you may wish to read the CALO Desktop notes in the End-User installation instructions.