Windows Software Installation
Tutorial
GEFSOC Soil Carbon Modeling System
Mark Easter, Kendrick Killian, Ting Feng,
and Keith Paustian
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523-1499
Introduction
This tutorial was put together to provide step-by-step instructions for installing
the Microsoft Windows® software required to work with the GEFSOC soil
carbon modeling system.
The tutorial was assembled by copying screen shots from the actual software
installation.
The user may find that there some differences due to the hardware configuration
of the system they are installing. If they do run into differences, they are
encouraged to consult their documentation and users manuals and proceed
cautiously.
Installation CD
The software are installed on the GEFSOC soil carbon modeling system
Installation CD, under the directory titled “windows_software”. The first step
after downloading the CD image (.ico) file from the GEFSOC web site and
burning the CD is to insert the CD into your CD-ROM drive and open the CD
from the “My Computer” icon on your desktop.
You should then see a window similar to the one on the following page.
Double-Click
here
to open the
windows_software folder
Double-Click
on “ActiveExperts”
to open that
folder
Double-Click
on the “asocket.exe”
icon to install the
ActiveExperts software
You will first see this window.
Make sure that the user that
is logged into the Windows®
computer has administrator
privileges before proceeding.
Then click on the “Setup”
button.
Click on the “Next” button
Fill in the fields as shown, then
click on the “Next” button
A group license has been purchased
for the GEFSOC system, and the
license code is embedded in the modeling
system software, so please disregard
this message. Click “OK”.
Click on the “Next” button
Make sure the “Typical” option
is selected, then click on the
“Next” button
Click on the “Next” button
Click on the “Next” button
The Installation will be performed
Click on the “Finish” button
Go back to the
windows_software
directory on the
installation CD, and
then double-Click
on the “centx” folder
to open it.
Create a directory on your Windows®
computer’s c:\ drive named c:\centxpc,
and copy all of these files to that new
directory.
These files contain the Century Model for
the PC, and a simple user interface that
runs in Microsoft Access®. The user
interface is the file titled
century_GUI_for_Access2000_or_XP.mdb
Go back to the
windows_software
directory on the
installation CD, and
then double-Click
on the “mysql” folder
to open it.
Double-Click on the
“MyODBC-3.51.10-x86-win-32bit.exe”
icon to install the MySQL ODBC driver
software
Click on the “Next” button
Select “I accept the license agreement
and then click on the “Next” button
Click on the “Next” button
Click on the “Next” button
You’ll see a window that looks like this.
Click on the “Finish” button
The next step is to create a new ODBC connection
from the Windows® computer to the LINUX MySQL
server.
To do this, open the Windows® control panel from the
Start button, then open the “Administrative Tools” folder.
Double click on the “Data Sources (ODBC) icon to open it.
This window will open up. Select the “System DSN”
tab in the top left.
Click on the “Add” button.
Scroll down to the bottom of
the list and select the
“MySQL ODBC 3.51 Driver”.
Then click on “finish”.
Fill in the fields exactly as
shown. Type in the word
gefsoc in the Password field.
Then Select the “Advanced”
tab.
Click to select the “Allow Big
Results” and “Change Bigint
Columns to Int” fields. Then
click on “Test”.
Click the “OK” button. If the test reports a failure, then try the entire
process again from the beginning. If the process fails again, then
make sure that “mysql.server” is running in the “Services” program on
the LINUX computer.
To open the “Services” program, click on the “Start” button (looks like
a red hat in the lower left corner, then select “System Settings”, and
then “Server Settings”, and then “Services”. Scroll down the left side
of the screen to find the “mysql.server” option and make sure it is
checked.Then click on the “restart” button, click the “save” button,
and attempt one more time to build the ODBC connection on the
Windows® computer.
Click the “OK” button to
continue.
Click the “OK” button to
continue.
Go back to the
windows_software
directory on the
installation CD, and
then double-Click
on the “perl” folder
to open it.
Double-Click on the
“ActivePerl-5.8.4.810-MSWin32-x86.msi”
icon to install the PERL software
Click the “Next” button to
continue.
Click the “Next” button to
continue.
Click down arrow next to “ActivePerl” and
select the option that says “Entire feature will
be installed on hard drive”. Then click the
“Next” button.
Click the “Next” button to
continue.
Click the “Next” button to
continue.
Click the “Install” button to
continue.
Click the “Finish” button to
continue.
Go back to the
windows_software
directory on the
installation CD, and
then double-Click
on the “ssh” folder
to open it.
Double-Click on the
“SSHSecureShellClient-3.2.9.exe”
icon to install the Secure Shell
(ssh) software
Click the “Next” button to
continue.
Click the “Yes” button to
continue.
Click the “Next” button to
continue.
Click the “Next” button to
continue.
Click the “Next” button to
continue.
Click the “Next” button to
continue.
Click the “Finish” button.
The Installation process is finished.
Thank you for your attention and interest.