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Tutorial 2:Installation of ASCEND


Visual Cue
Narration
Slide number 1

Title slide

Welcome to the spoken tutorial on Installation of ASCEND
Show Slide 2

Learning Objectives

In this tutorial,

We will learn how to install ASCEND in

  • Ubuntu 12.04
  • Windows 7


Slide 3

Learning Objectives

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


Slide number 4

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


Slide number 5

Pre-requisites

To follow this tutorial, user must have a basic knowledge of

Linux

Windows-7 and

Firefox

Slide number 6

Pre-requisites

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

http://spoken-tutorial.org

Let us begin with the installation of ASCEND on Ubuntu
Open a web broser 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 dialouge box opens

Click on save file button and click on ok.



press CTRL+ALT+T

type sudo apt-get install libpopt0 in terminal

enter the passoword


Let us now open the terminal

press CTRL+ALT+T keys simultaneously to open the terminal

type sudo apt-get install libpopt0 on the prompt

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 download folder where ASCEND is downloaded.
Install ascend using the ubuntu software center Right click on the downloaded version and click on open with Ubuntu Software Center

Once the Ubuntu Software Center window opens,click on the install button the right side.

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 a ascend icon on the launcher

click on ascend icon to open it

you will see the ascend interface

Click on the open icon and load vessel.a4c file by double clicking on vessels in modules section click on open

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

Slide number 7

Pre-requisites

Lets begin with the installation of ASCEND on Windows 7
Open Firefox web browser on the screen First open a web browser,and
open ascend4.org website 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,download 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

Browser through the folder where you want to save ascend package

I am leaving it as program files in C drive

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 wil see an icon of Ascend

click on ascend icon to open it

Ascend interface opens.Load the vessel.a4c file under modules section you will see an ascend interface

Now click on open

Under program files in Ascend Folder,you will find a models folder

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

Slide number 8

Pre-requisites

With this we come to the end of this tutorial

we will see how to model prolems in Ascend in the future tutorials

Slide number 9

Summary

In this tutorial,We have learned how to install ASCEND in
  • Ubuntu 12.04 32 bit machine
  • Windows 7 64 bit machine
  • open a model in ASCEND and run it


Slide number 10

Spoken Tutorial Workshops

Information on the spoken tutorial project is avilale on the internet.

Workshops based on spoken tutorials are also avilable

Slide number 11

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