Installation instructions

Before installing, make sure your computer meets the system requirements.

Installing on Microsoft® Windows®

If you have an earlier version of Rule Discovery System™ installed on your computer, you need to uninstall it before the downloaded version of RDS™ can be installed. Do this by selecting 'Control panel' from the start menu and then choose 'Add and remove programs'. Look up Rule Discovery System in the list, select it and choose 'Remove'. The old version of RDS will be removed from you computer.

Rule Discovery System is distributed as a self-extracting windows install program. Run the program rds_me_2.5.1M.msi by double clicking the file in windows explorer.
Follow the instructions given during the setup procedure. This will install Rule Discovery System on your computer. When trying to install, you may be prompted that the installation requires Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0. If this occurs, follow the instructions to download and install the .NET Framework and then run the downloaded msi-file again. Download Microsoft .Net framework 2.0 here.
The installation takes less than one minute to complete. When finished, the Start menu will contain a new folder entitled "Compumine Rule Discovery System", and a Rule Discovery System shortcut will be placed on your Desktop. If you prefer not having the shortcut on your Desktop, you can delete it -- RDS is not deleted by deleting the shortcut.
The first time RDS™ is run, you will be asked to enter your license key. RDS will then go out on the Internet and verify your installation with our license server. This step requires that you are connected to the Internet. You can view your license key any time from your account settings under My account when you are logged in on this site.

Installing on Linux®

RDS for Linux® is distributed as a compressed file archive whose content should be extracted by giving the commands gunzip rds_me_2.5.1M.tar.gz and tar xvf rds_me_2.5.1M.tar). The contents can be placed in any directory.

RDS is run by issuing the command rds to a command shell.

The first time RDS™ is run, you will be asked to enter your license key. RDS will then go out on the Internet and verify your installation with our license server. This step requires that you are connected to the Internet. You can view your license key any time from your account settings under My account when you are logged in on this web site.

In case you have successfully installed RDS, but want to execute the program from some other directory than the one in which it resides, make sure that you have included the path to the RDS directory in the environment variable PATH. This is done in slightly different ways on different command shells.

On csh and tcsh, give the command, or include it in the file .cshrc in your home directory:

setenv PATH ″<RDS directory>:$PATH″

where <RDS directory> is the directory containing the executable rds (e.g., /home/smith/rds).

On Linux sh, bash and ksh, give the command, or include it in the file .shrc (when using sh), .bashrc (when using bash) or .profile (when using ksh) in your home directory:

export PATH=″<RDS directory>:$PATH″

where <RDS directory> is the directory containing the executable rds (e.g., /home/smith/rds).