MindStudio IDE Installation

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

1. Upload the software package to the target environment as the MindStudio IDE installation user.
2. Decompress the MindStudio IDE package.

   Run the following command in the target directory as the MindStudio IDE 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.

   

   The decompression path of the package must consist of letters (a-z or A-Z), digits (0-9), underscores (_), hyphens (-), slashes (/), and periods (.). Otherwise, the error message "The install path is invalid, only characters in [a-z,A-Z,0-9,-,/,.] are supported!" is displayed during MindStudio IDE installation and the installation exits.

3. As the MindStudio IDE installation user, go to the MindStudio/bin directory generated after package decompression.

   cd MindStudio/bin

4. Run the following command to start MindStudio IDE:

   ./MindStudio.sh

   If MindStudio IDE cannot be started by running the preceding command, run the following command to start it:

   1. Run the following command to query the shell parsing mode in the current environment:

      echo $SHELL

   2. If the following information is displayed, the command lines in the current environment need to be parsed using bash:

      /bin/bash

   3. Run the following command to start MindStudio IDE:

      bash 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 IDE is started, rectify the fault by referring to What Do I Do If the GUI Cannot Be Displayed When MindStudio IDE Is Started?.
   • If the error message "WARNING: Install the haveged service by referring to the installation guide." is displayed when MindStudio IDE 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 IDE?.
   • If the system displays a message indicating that the libXext.so.6 file cannot be found when MindStudio IDE 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 IDE?.
   • If the system displays a message indicating that no sufficient space can be reserved for the object heap when MindStudio IDE is started, rectify the fault by referring to What Do I Do If MindStudio IDE Cannot Be Started When the Set Memory Is too Large?.
   • To specify the jdk operating environment for MindStudio IDE, 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)