How do I install and activate TotalView?

Getting Help

Please note that support for TotalView is provided by the vendor, documentation and email support (registration required).

Before You Start

Ensure that your computer is connected to the Internet. If you are off campus you will need to be running the MIT VPN.

Download the documentation and TotalView installation tar files you will need for your platform (32 and 64 bit Linux are the only ones we have licensed) as well as the license file license.dat from the Software Grid to a temporary directory (MIT Certificate required).

When newer releases are distributed by the vendor we will update the version in the Grid. You can check periodically and redownload and reinstall as per the instructions below to update your installation.

Installation

Note: in steps below, version and flexversion should be replaced by the actual version strings created by the installer.
Go to the directory you downloaded the tar files to in a terminal window and untar them from the command line:
find . -name "totalview.tar" -exec tar xpf {} \;*
Enter the totalview.version directory that is created and run the ./Install installer; you will only need to pick the installation directory, select the architecture version (x86 for 32 bit machines, x86-64 for 64 bit machines) and decide if you want a symbolic link pointing to the version-specific installation directory; respond y to other queries but only install license-common from components starting with license-*:

cd totalview.version
./Install

Move the license.dat file to the <installation directory>/toolworks/flexlm-flexversion directory.
After installation is complete you can delete the tar files you downloaded originally.
You can now launch the GUI version of TotalView from the command line by typing:
<installation directory>/toolworks/totalview.version/bin/totalview
or the command-line version by typing:
<installation directory>/toolworks/totalview.version/bin/totalviewcli

You may wish to put the directory containing these files on your path or make links to these files from a directory already on your path such as /usr/local/bin. The documentation in pdf format will be in
<installation directory>/toolworks/totalview.version/doc/pdf