Installation

To obtain the micro-radiant, you need to have a valid NSX Nexus account.

Prerequisites

• Both Java 17 (or higher) and a local Maven installation is required for the µRadiant to run correctly. The mvn executable should be available on the system path. A Maven settings.xml file must also be set up in one of the search locations for Maven with configuration to access the repository which distributes the µRadiant.
• To view models in the micro-radiant, Graphviz must be installed.
• Optionally, you can also install ns-initializer and ns-scripting:
  • ns-initializer adds support to create new applications and metamodel projects.
  • ns-scripting is used to script deployment in a portable way.

Instructions

Windows

• Download directly from Nexus
• Install with Chocolatey:
  1. Install Chocolatey if needed.
  2. Set up Chocolatey with a new source:

     choco source add -n nsx-nexus -s https://nexus.normalizedsystems.org/repository/nuget-choco-public/ -u my-nexus-username -p my-nexus-password
  3. Install ns-initializer with or without 3rd party dependencies (Java, Maven, ...):
     • With dependencies:

       choco install micro-radiant
     • Without dependencies:

       choco install ns-scripting.install ns-initializer.install micro-radiant.install
• Download using Maven:

  mvn dependency:copy "-Dartifact=net.democritus.editor:micro-radiant-windows-installer:2.0.1:exe" "-DoutputDirectory=."

Ubuntu

To install on Ubuntu, we provide Debian packages which can be downloaded through APT. We support Ubuntu 22.04 or newer. Other Debian-based distributions may work as well, but not guaranteed.

1. If you have not yet set up APT sources for NS tooling:

   sudo bash -c "wget -q -O - https://foundation.stars-end.net/files/setup-nsx-apt.sh | bash <(cat) </dev/tty"
2. Execute the command to install:

   sudo apt install micro-radiant
3. During first installation you will be asked to provide credentials to configure your system. Select Yes if you were provided with Nexus credentials by NSX.
4. Reboot your system before first use of the tooling.

Other

For other operating systems, you can download the archive version of the µRadiant and install it manually.

1. First, download the latest zip directly from Nexus or using Maven:

   mvn dependency:copy "-Dartifact=net.democritus.editor:micro-radiant:2.0.1:zip:full" "-DoutputDirectory=."
2. Then, unpack it in a directory of your choice e.g. C:\micro-radiant or ~/micro-radiant.
3. For Linux/Mac users the visualization software Graphviz needs to be manually installed in order to use all features of the µRadiant. However, the core functionality will still work without it. A full restart could be required.
4. Start the application by running start.bat or start.sh and navigate to http://localhost:9050 in your browser.