Default Installation of the Shake software:

If nothing happens when you start Shake, check to see first if the software is actually installed:

Is Shake installed?

SGI
/usr/nreal/shake-v2.20/bin/shake
NT, by default, under the System Drive:
\Program Files\Shake-v2.20\shake.exe

The NT version also inserts shake under the Start menu.

Is Shake in my path?

If the software is present, make sure Shake is in your active path:

SGI, or NT with the tcsh emulator:
  • In your .tcshrc file (or something similar) in your $HOME directory, make sure you have a line that says:

    set path = (. /usr/nreal/shake-v2.20/bin $path)

  • Save your file, then source the file:

    source .tcshrc

    Now type shake again to see if it works.
NT
  • The installation process automatically places Shake in the path under the Environment variables section.

Is Shake keyed, or Where is the number of the SysAdmin guy?

At this point if it doesn't work, its probably a key problem, in which case you will see an error message telling you there is a problem with the flexLM licensing. In this case, contact your sysadmin folks, or call us. If you are running NT, try launching Shake with the command prompt window under Start-Nothing Real-Shake2-Shake shell. It will indicate if there is a licensing problem.

Common license problems are extra control characters in the file, or the license file was not saved as pure ASCII text (i.e., on NT, saved as a Word 6.0 doc). Another common problem is that there is a .txt extension on the license. All of these are Verboten.

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