Download and prepare RawTools for Linux

Now that you have Mono installed, we will download and set up RawTools for Linux.

Download and setup

Using your internet browser, navigate to the RawTools GitHub releases page. Under Assests in the middle of the page, right-click on RawTools-x.x.x.zip and select the `Copy Link Address' option (where x.x.x is the RawTools version number, 1.0.0 in this example).

Now go to the Terminal window on your Linux machine. Navigate to a directory where you want to store RawTools and create a folder. In our case, we are going to store RawTools in our /home directory in a folder called RawTools.

$cd /home/[username]
$mkdir RawTools
$cd RawTools

Now download the RawTools repository with the command:

$wget [paste the link you just copied here]

Extract this ZIP file with the command:

unzip [name of ZIP file].zip

RawTools should now be present in your newly created directory.

Quick test for functionality

To quickly test whether RawTools is ready to run, open the Terminal application on your Linux machine. Use the command below to navigate to your folder if you made it as we did above.

$cd \home\[username]\RawTools\[RawTools folder]

Enter the command:

$mono RawTools.exe -help

The output should be similar to that seen below.

If the command executed correctly, you are ready to proceed to the next step of downloading a test dataset.