= UTGB Quick Start = The UTGB Shell is a set of supporting utilities to develop your own tracks for querying and visualizing biological data. This document is a quick start guide for beginning track development with UTGB in 30 minutes. = Installation of UTGB = In order to use UTGB, you need a JDK (Java Development Kit) version 1.5 or higher. If you have no JDK in your OS, visit the Sun's Java site (http://java.sun.com), and follow the installation instruction. == Windows == 1. Download the UTGB shell archive from [[http://maven.utgenome.org/repository/release/utgb-shell-1.0-SNAPSHOT.tgz]], unpack it to anywhere you want, e.g., C:\utgb\utgb-shell-1.0-SNAPSHOT. 1. You need to set two environment variables. Press Win + Pause (or open Control Panel -> System -> Settings) to open Environment Variable panel. 1. Append C:\utgb\utgb-shell-1.0-SNAPSHOT\bin to the PATH variable as follows: * PATH = C:\utgb\utgb-shell-1.0-SNAPSHOT\bin;%PATH% 1. Set the JAVA_HOME variable to your JDK (1.5 or higher) installation. For example, * JAVA_HOME = C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_03 == Linux == 1. Download the UTGB Shell archive in the same way described in the Windows section. In this example, we use $HOME/local/utgb-shell-1.0-SNAPSHOT, where $HOME$ is your home directory, e.g. /home/leo 1. Install JDK. We assume your JDK is installed in /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_03. 1. Set the following two environment variables in one of the .profile, .bash_profile, .zprofile, etc: {{{ export UTGB_HOME=$HOME/local/utgb-shell-1.0-SNAPSHOT export PATH=$UTGB/bin:$PATH export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_03 }}}