Getting Started

You’re going to need 3 things:

• The Java runtime (version 1.4+). You can get the SDK, but all you really need is the JRE. http://java.sun.com
  

• The .zip or .tar.gz containing all the libraries and sample files
  

• The Java Media Framework (JMF) which is available at: http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jmf/index.jsp. Although in some systems this does not appear to be necessary for things to run, you may experience some problems.

If you’re running on Windows: We’ve included a sample guess.bat script which will launch GUESS. You’ll either want to set GUESS_HOME as a global environment variable or just in the script.

If you’re running on UNIX: Same as above just with the guess.sh script

If you’re running on a Mac: Andrea Wiggins wrote a very helpful manual on getting started with GUESS on the Mac. It’s available here: http://graphexploration.cond.org/MacGUESSinstall.pdf

We’ve greatly simplified running GUESS. You no longer have to build the database as a separate step (as in Zoomgraph). Just double click on guess.bat and you’ll be in the system or if you don’t want to type commands into the console window you can run guessallgui.bat (also need to change GUESS_HOME) which will give you an interpreter window inside the main UI window.