A.5 How do I start up TCM?

 

You start the TCM start-up tool with the command tcm, or you can start up individual editors like we explained in section 1.4. If starting up TCM does not succeed then we have some suggestions for you:

1.

Assuming that TCM is installed correctly (see question A.4), you should set $TCM_HOME to the globally accessible TCM directory. Check also that the tools are accessible and in your PATH variable (check this for instance with the Unix command which). If not, add $TCM_HOME/bin to your PATH variable.

2.

Make sure that you run X Windows and that your DISPLAY variable is set correctly (you can test this with echo $DISPLAY). Note also that when you run an X application remotely, your X display should be open for it. See the manual pages xhost(1) and xauth(1) for how you can safely open your X display for remote applications.

3.

Check the version of the operating system you are running, for instance with uname -a. Maybe you have installed a TCM distribution for a different OS. With the command file `which tcm` you can see what type of executables the distribution contains.

4.

If you cannot start TCM because of messages about libraries that cannot be opened like: ``libBlaBla.so: can't open file'' then proceed with question A.22.

5.

If TCM immediately crashes with a message like ``X Error of failed request'' then proceed with question A.21.

6.

If TCM does start up but displays some dubious error messages about failed assertions or implementation errors then proceed with question A.43.

7.

If all this does not help, you can always send an e-mail to tcm@cs.vu.nl .