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Tutorial 2:Installation of ASCEND


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Narration
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Title slide

Welcome to the spoken tutorial on Installation of ASCEND
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Learning Objectives

In this tutorial,

We will learn how to install ASCEND in

  • Ubuntu 12.04
  • Windows 7


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Learning Objectives

We will also learn how to
  • Open a model in ASCEND and run it


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System Requirement

Here I am using
  • Ubuntu Linux OS v. 12.04 on 32-bit machine
  • Windows 7 on 64-bit machine
  • Firefox v. 21.0


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Pre-requisites

To follow this tutorial, user must have a basic knowledge of
  • Linux
  • Windows 7
  • Firefox


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Pre-requisites

To know more about ASCEND, please go through previous tutorials of this series, available on-

http://spoken-tutorial.org

Let us begin with the installation of ASCEND on Ubuntu.

Open a web browser and open ascend4.org First open a web browser; now type the url ascend4.org
Click on the download link Click on the download link in the yellow box.
Show the download page

Download .deb Ascend file

A page opens.

Click on download Ascend with .deb extension on the top of the page.

Download starts automatically.

Choose save file option in the pop-up window A dialog box opens.

Click on Save file button and click on Ok.

Press CTRL+ALT+T Let us now open the terminal.

Press CTRL+ALT+T keys simultaneously to open the terminal.

Type sudo apt-get install libpopt0 in terminal Type sudo apt-get install libpopt zero on the prompt.
Enter the password Enter the system password and press Enter.
Installation of libpopt is complete This is a pre-requisite for ASCEND and will get installed easily.
Open the Downloads folder Now go to Downloads folder where ASCEND is downloaded.
Right-click on >> click on Open with Ubuntu Software Center Right click on the downloaded version and click on Open with Ubuntu Software Center.
Ubuntu Software Center window >> click on Install button Once the Ubuntu Software Center window is opened, click on the Install button the right side.
Enter password Provide the system password and press Enter.

The installation takes a few seconds to complete.

Click on the ASCEND icon in the launcher After installation, you will see an ASCEND icon on the launcher.

Click on ASCEND icon to open it.

You will see the ASCEND interface.
Click on the Open icon Click on Open.
Load vessel.a4c file by double clicking on vessels in modules section You will find a models folder in the ASCEND folder.


Now locate vessel.a4c and double-click on it.

ASCEND interface opens.

Double click on vessels under Modules section.

Vessel model opens in Simulation section.

Click on Solve icon Click on Solve icon.

This solves the model.

The blue coloured line represents the solution to the problem.

ASCEND is now installed on Ubuntu 12.04

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Pre-requisites

Let's begin with the installation of ASCEND on Windows 7
Open Firefox web browser on the screen First open a web browser.
Open ascend4.org website And type the url ascend4.org and press Enter.
Click on the download link in the yellow box Click on the download link in the yellow box.

A new page opens.

Download .exe installation file for ascend Now click on Download Ascend with the .exe extension.
Click on save file in the prompt window Click on Save file.

Dwnload starts automatically.

Go to the download folder and double click on the setup file Now open the folder where Ascend has been saved.

Double-click on setup file.

Click on I agree in the prompt window and complete the installation A box with terms and conditions opens.

Click on I agree,then Next.

Browse through the folder where you want to save ASCEND package.

I am leaving it as Program Files in C drive.

Click on Next. Now click on Next.

During installation process, the pre-requisites will also be installed along with ASCEND.

Agree to all installation processes when prompted.

Click on Start button and click on ASCEND icon Now click on the Start menu.

You will see an icon of ASCEND.

Click on ASCEND icon to open it.

Ascend interface opens. You will see an ASCEND interface.

Now click on Open.

Under Program files in ASCEND folder, you will find a models folder.

Load the vessel.a4c file under modules section Now browse through the file vessel.a4c and double-click on it.

Now under Modules section, you will find the word vessel.

Double-click on it. It will open under Simulation section.

Click on the Solve button Now click on Solve.

The green dots show the answer that ascend has calculated.

ASCEND is now installed on Windows 7.

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Pre-requisites

With this we come to the end of this tutorial.

We will see how to model problems in ASCEND in the future tutorials.

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Summary

In this tutorial, we have learnt how to install ASCEND in
  • Ubuntu 12.04 32 bit machine
  • Windows 7 64 bit machine

We have also learnt how to

  • Open a model in ASCEND and run it
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Acknowledgements

Spoken Tutorial Project is funded by NMEICT, MHRD.

This is Priya Bagde from IIT Bombay signing off

Thank You

Contributors and Content Editors

Nancyvarkey, Tarung