McXtrace - An X-ray ray-trace simulation package

2.4  Tools, installation

2.4.1  Selected Tool features

• standard FreeBSD port

• Possibility to run MPI or grid simulations by default from mxgui.

• We provide syntax-highlighting setup files for eamcs, vim and gedit editors.

2.4.2  Warnings

WARNING: The ’dash’ shell which is used as /bin/sh on some Linux system makes the ’Cancel’ and ’Update’ buttons fail in mxgui. Solutions are:

• If your system is a Debian or Ubuntu, please dpkg-reconfigure dash and say ’no’ to install dash as /bin/sh

• If you run another Linux with /bin/sh beeing dash, please install bash and manually change the /bin/sh link to point at bash.