[Radiance-general] Radiance Installation and Running

[Axel Jacobs]

Hi Ikrima,

If you need to run Radiance on a non-Windows platform, you can
essentially go MacOS or LINUIX (e.g. Ubuntu).

It's probably a good idea to rely in NREL's binaries:
https://github.com/NREL/Radiance/releases/
unless, that is, you want to compile from source.  But this is rather
more difficult.

Your choice of MacOS vs LINUX will not only depend on the hardware
that you have available, but also on the support you can get from your
local IT support..

Have a look at the Running LEARNIX pdf on this page:
http://www.jaloxa.eu/mirrors/learnix/docs.shtml to see whether one of
the available options might suit you.  The document is fairly old, and
I never found the time to actually finish it.  I think that installing
Ubuntu into a VirtualBox virtual machine is quite a good solution.
This is how I used to run all Radiance jobs at my previous place of
work.  The big advantage is that you can Windows and LINUX at the same
time, but you need lots of RAM for this (I recommend at least 8GB).

Hope this gets you started.

Best

Axel


On 18 June 2015 at 14:27, Ikrima Amaireh <ezxia at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi Axel again,
>
> Please let me make my enquiry more clear because I'm getting a bit confused.
>
> I don't mind to use UBUNTU, knoppix, learnix or other operation system to run Radiance. By the end, what I need exactly is running Radiance (with almost all its programs) for two things:
>
> 1. generate BSDF for CFS to be used with Window7.3 tool.
> 2. calculate daylight levels for a grid points inside the space with same CFS.
>
> To be honest, I did a lot of readings on how to do that but can't try that because I can't manage to install full Radiance package (I have already installed Radiance for windows but can't run genBSDF program, as I know).
>
> I hope you can help me to sort that out