Installation

How to install SOLQC on your own personal computer

Installing Docker (~5 minutes)

The first thing you'll need to do is to install docker (wiki link). Docker is a computer program that performs operating-system-level virtualisation. This means that you will be able to run a virtual machine very easily from the command line. What's more important for us it that you'll be able to run SOLQC with a just a simple line. This is a pretty straightforward procedure, just follow the instruction in the following link:

Get Started with Docker | DockerDocker

You'll need to preform 3 steps:

1. Sign-up for docker

2. Download and install docker

3. Run docker.

Mac / Windows

Start the docker desktop application.

Linux

Unless you changed the default settings docker will be running on default. To start it manually do:

$ sudo systemctl start docker

or

$ sudo service docker start

Installing SOLQC (~3 minutes)

Make sure docker is running.

Now, that you have docker installed and running! to make sure it is running run the following command from the terminal :

$ docker stats --no-stream

And if it outputs an error then it is not running and you need to start docker.

Download and Start SOLQC

Once you know docker is running, you can install and start SOLQC with this simple line from the terminal (or any other command line prompt) :

$ docker run -p 5000:5000 solqc/tool

The first time you run this line, it will download SOLQC from what's called a DockerHub, so this might take a couple of minutes. Once it finish the download it will start the program. To access it you'll need to open your browser and copy in the following address (or just click on address):

http://localhost:5000/

If all went well you should see the following screen:

If you see this screen than you have successfully installed our software, Well done!

We highly recommend doing our toy example next.