Note: This version of the VDT (1.10.1) is supported, but is not our latest stable release. The current stable release is 2.0.0.

Express VDT installation guide (for experts only)

# Create a directory for VDT
mkdir vdt
cd vdt

# Get pacman
wget http://physics.bu.edu/pacman/sample_cache/tarballs/pacman-3.26.tar.gz

# Install pacman
tar xzf pacman-3.26.tar.gz
cd pacman-3.26
. setup.sh
cd ..

# Install any one or more of the VDT packages with pacman
pacman -get http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/vdt_1101_cache:VDT

# Setup the environment (use setup.sh / setup.csh depending on your shell)
. setup.sh

# Setup your CA Certificates.
# First, choose your CA distribution in vdt-update-certs.conf
vi vdt/etc/vdt-update-certs.conf
# Then, run the following script
. vdt-questions.sh; vdt/sbin/vdt-setup-ca-certificates