Note: This version of the VDT (1.2.3) is no longer supported. Feel free to look through the documentation and install it, but we cannot guarantee support for it. 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-2.129.tar.gz

# Install pacman
tar xzf pacman-2.129.tar.gz
export PATH=`pwd`/pacman-2.129:$PATH

# Point Pacman at the correct VDT cache
pacman -cache:http://vdt.cs.wisc.edu/vdt_123_cache

# Install any one or more of these VDT packages with pacman
pacman -get VDT

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