Installing SAC on WSL Ubuntu

SAC (Seismic Analysis Code) is a general purpose interactive program designed for the study of sequential signals, especially time series data. Here I documented how I installed SAC on my windows laptop.

Source code

• Go to IRIS to download SAC source code: https://ds.iris.edu/ds/nodes/dmc/software/downloads/sac/

ps. You’ll need to answer some questions to request the code.

Dependancy packages

• Install required packages > sudo apt install libedit-dev libxml2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev

Installation

• Create a home directory for SAC under: usr/local > mkdir sac
• Unzip the file > unzip .zip
• Move all the extracted files to SAC home directory.> mv * ..usr/local/sac
• Go to “build” and check the

> cd build
> ../configure --prefix=/usr/local/sac

• Compile the programme > make
• Install SAC > sudo make install

Setting up environment variables

• Add the following lines to .bashrc:

export SACHOME=usr/local/sac
export SACAUX=${SACHOME}/aux
export PATH=${SACHOME}/bin:${PATH}
export SAC_DISPLAY_COPYRIGHT=1
export SAC_PPK_LARGE_CROSSHAIRS=1
export SAC_USE_DATABASE=0

• Execute .bashrc to save the environment variable setting > source ~/.bashrc

Testing

• sac