Headwave Installation

Use these steps to install Headwave. You can install in either Microsoft Windows or on Linux.

Installing and Launching on Windows

To install on Microsoft Windows, run the Headwave .msi installer. If you do not have an installation of Python, you can install the Python in the Headwave installer.

Select Headwave [version]> Headwave from the Start menu to launch Headwave.

Installing on Linux

To install Headwave on your Linux system, follow these steps:

1. Extract the provided compressed tar (.tar.gz) file to a known location, typically under /usr/local or under /opt.

You can specify in which directory you want the files extracted using the -C option. For example:

sudo tar -xvzf ~/Downloads/file.tar.gz -C /opt/

2. Headwave provides an embedded Python console for scripting inside the application. The embedded console will use the default Python environment (if any) available on the system.

Alternatively, the Python environment bundled with Headwave may be used. It already contains all the necessary Python packages to run the functionality provided through the Python API and Python extension toolkits that ship with Headwave. In order to use the Python bundled with Headwave, run the following script once:

<InstallLocation>/bin/configure_python_installation.sh

Note: The Python bundled with Headwave may only be used if the Headwave installation path (i.e. <InstallLocation>) contains no spaces. Otherwise, running configure_python_installation.sh will report an error.

3. Run <InstallLocation>/bin/run_with_python.sh to run Headwave with the bundled Python environment (if you have completed step 2 above) or <InstallLocation>/bin/headwave to run with the default Python environment (if any) available on the system.

Licenses

Headwave uses FlexNet Publisher (formerly known as FlexLM) license manager, which can be a floating license on a server OR node locked license.

• For floating license on a server, start the Headwave license daemon on the provided FlexNet Publisher license server.
• For node-locked licenses, save the provided license to a directory on the machine, e.g. C:\licenses. For convenience, use a directory where users will have write permission in case a renewal license file will be needed in the future.

After launching, the Licenses window will be displayed. Specify either the directory where a Headwave license file is located (i.e. C:/Licenses), or the port@hostname as appropriate.

User Guide

The user guide link is Headwave main User Interface > Help > User’s Manual.

Note: The Headwave User Guide opens in a browser window. If you do not see the content of the user guide, ensure that JavaScript is enabled in the browser.