Spartacus User Guide

This guide covers installation and usage of Spartacus. For documentation on developing Spartacus, see the README file that comes with the distribution.

Prerequisites

Spartacus has been developed primarily for GNU/Linux but can also run on Windows, MacOS, and other operating systems for which GTK+ is available.

Installation

Before installing Spartacus, ensure that Python (version 2.5 or later), PyGTK (version 2.0 or later), and numpy are properly installed on your system. To install Spartacus on Linux, execute the commands

	$ tar -xzf spartacus-0.1.0.tar.gz
	$ cd spartacus-0.1.0/
	$ python setup.py build
	$ python setup.py install  # requires root priviledges

Consult the distutils installation guide for customized installation options.

Starting Spartacus

Either double click the program icon on the desktop, or invoke spartacus from the terminal. If started from the terminal, spartacus can run in interactive mode (using a graphical interface), or in non-interactive batch mode. 

	$ spartacus [-ox] [MODELFILE] [-- MODEL OPTIONS]
	$ spartacus -v   # print current version and quit

If spartacus is invoked with the option -x, a model file must be provided. If the option -o is given, spartacus will dump out observabled to standard out. Two dashes (--) mark arbitrary options that can be passed to a model file.

Using Spartacus