Mission Support System Usage Guidelines

Welcome to the Mission Support System software for planning atmospheric research flights. This document is intended to point you into the right direction in order to get the software working on your computer.

Installing MSS

We distinguish between Developer and User installations.

Developer Installation

Please read our contributing pages. and development guidelines

User Installation

Get pixi from https://pixi.sh/latest/ for your operation system.

You can now decide if you want to install mss as global or a project.

Global installation

You can install mss global without defining a project first. This method is practical when you are interested in starting the client and don't need server configurations.

pixi global install mss

Usage

msui
mswms -h
mscolab -h
mssautoplot -h

Updating

pixi global update mss

Project installation

Initialize a new project and navigate to the project directory.

pixi init MSS
cd MSS

Use the shell command to activate the environment and start a new shell in there.

pixi shell

Add the mss dependencies from conda-forge.

(MSS) pixi add mss

Usage

Always when you want to start mss programs you have after its installation to activate the environment by pixi shell in the project dir. On the very first start of msui it takes a bit longer because it setups fonts.

cd MSS
pixi shell

(MSS) msui
(MSS) mswms -h
(MSS) mscolab -h
(MSS) mssautoplot -h

Updating

cd MSS
pixi shell
(MSS) pixi update mss