V-Gears/doc/INSTALL.md

V-Gears Installation Guide

Manual installation

The data installer can do this for you: enable "Copy V-Gears data files" in its advanced options and it copies the data/ folder of the repository (share/v-gears/ in an installed package) to the installation directory. To do it by hand:

1. Create a folder for V-Gears data, outside the project. In Linux-based systems, it's recommended to use ~/.v-gears/.

2. Copy all the contents of the data/ folder of the repository to the newly created directory. It should end up like this:

   ~/.v-gears/
   ├── data
   ├── field_models_and_animation_metadata.xml
   ├── plugins.cfg
   ├── plugins_d.cfg
   ├── resources.cfg
   └── resources_d.cfg
   

3. If you used a directory other than ~/.v-gears/, start V-Gears from it, or pass it with --data-dir (see Run V-Gears).

If you skip these steps, V-Gears copies the files to ~/.v-gears/ itself the first time it runs.

Next steps

• Install data
• Run V-Gears