MindStudio Installation

Only one installation of MindStudio is permitted within a single directory on a server. Before installing MindStudio, ensure that any previous installation has been uninstalled. For details, see Uninstallation (Linux).
Log in to the OS as the MindStudio installation user. It is not supported to switch to the MindStudio installation user after login as a different user.

Prerequisites

Software Package Preparation to Dependency Installation have been completed.
You have installed the Ascend-CANN-Toolkit by following instructions in the CANN Software Installation Guide.

Procedure

Upload the software package to the target environment as the MindStudio installation user.
Decompress the MindStudio package.
Run the following command as the MindStudio installation user to decompress the MindStudio_{version}_linux_{arch}.tar.gz package:
```
tar -zxvf MindStudio_{version}_linux_{arch}.tar.gz
```
For details about the content extracted from the package, see Table 1.
As the MindStudio installation user, go to the MindStudio/bin directory generated after package decompression and start MindStudio.
```
cd MindStudio/bin
./MindStudio.sh
```
- If the error message "Failed to initialize graphics environment", "Unable to detect graphics environment", or "Can't connect to X11 window server using 'localhost:xxx' as the value of the DISPLAY variable" is displayed when MindStudio is started, rectify the fault by referring to What Do I Do If the GUI Cannot Be Displayed When MindStudio Is Started?.
- If the error message "WARNING: Install the haveged service by referring to the installation guide." is displayed when MindStudio is started, rectify the fault by referring to What Do I Do If I Get Error "WARNING: Install the haveged service by referring to the installation guide" When Starting MindStudio?.
- If the system displays a message indicating that the libXext.so.6 file cannot be found when MindStudio is started on EulerOS 2.10, rectify the fault by referring to What Do I Do If I Get Error "java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /home/username/MindStudio/jbr/lib/libawt_xawt.so" When Starting MindStudio?.
- If the system displays a message indicating that no sufficient space can be reserved for the object heap when MindStudio is started, rectify the fault by referring to What Do I Do If MindStudio Cannot Be Started When the Set Memory Is too Large?.
- To specify the MindStudio operating environment, create the mindstudio.jdk file in the $HOME/.config/Huawei/MindStudioMS-{version} directory and write the .jbr or .jdk installation directory of the user into the file.
  Figure 1 mindstudio.jdk (example)

Parent topic: MindStudio Installation and Configuration