Installing Impresario

Impresario binaries are distributed in self-extracting archives for Windows and Linux platforms. Impresario does not make any changes to the operating system, it runs locally from the folder you installed it to.

Installation on Windows

  • Download the two executable files Impresario-win64-X.Y.Z.exe and ImpresarioMacros-win64-X.Y.Z.exe respectively, where X, Y, and Z denote the major, minor, and patch version of the packages.
  • Run Impresario-win64-X.Y.Z.exe first. It will prompt for an installation directory, please provide it, e.g. D:\Impresario-2.1.0. The directory will be created if it does not exist already.
  • Next, run ImpresarioMacros-win64-X.Y.Z.exe, it will also prompt for an installation directory. Please provide the same directory as you did in the first step. During extraction the tool may ask to overwrite the file bin\Impresario.xml. Please let it overwrite the file.
  • You are done. You can now start Impresario by running Impresario.exe in the bin subdirectory.

Installation on Linux

  • Download the two self-extracting archives Impresario-linux64-X.Y.Z.exe and ImpresarioMacros-linux64-X.Y.Z.exe respectively, where X, Y, and Z denote the major, minor, and patch version of the packages.

  • Make both downloaded files executable: 

    chmod +x Impresario-linux64-X.Y.Z.run
chmod +x ImpresarioMacros-linux64-X.Y.Z.tar.gz

  • Run Impresario-linux64-X.Y.Z.run first. You can provide an installation directory with the --target option, e.g. 

     
Impresario-linux64-X.Y.Z.run --target ./Impresario
    If no --target option is given, the default installation directory will be used, which is ./Impresario-X.Y.Z.

  • Next, run ImpresarioMacros-linux64-X.Y.Z.run, providing the same directory as you did in the first step.

  • You are done. You can now start Impresario by running ./impresario.sh in the bin subdirectory.
    Important: Do not run the program ./Impresario! This will run Impresario with an incorrect setup of LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Uninstall Impresario

To uninstall Impresario just delete the folder containing Impresario.

Impresario stores its user specific settings on Windows in <PATH_TO_YOUR_USER_DIRECTORY>\AppData\Roaming\Impresario. On Linux these settings are stored in ~/.config/Impresario.

You may like to delete these settings as well.