You do not need to install Coral within the MTL network. If you are within the MTL Windows domain, you will have a shortcut on your desktop called Coral. MTL Red Hat Linux 7 users will have Coral (type coral at the prompt) in their path when they login. Other Unix users (such as Athena) who do not have direct access to Coral can login to any of the MTL Redhat 7 machines (such as mtl-home.mit.edu) and run it from there.
This is a guide that installs Remote Coral only. If you are a Windows or Redhat 6/7 user within the MTL network, you do not need to install Remote Coral. For Windows users, a Coral shortcut will be on your desktop. For RedHat users, the command coral will be in your path.
There is no "bundle" for Linux.
Java 8 should already be installed on a typical Ubuntu or Centos Linux installation by default.
For Centos, the required packages are:
For Ubuntu, the required packages are:
To run MTL-NANO Coral, you can simply type the following at a command prompt on a console/desktop login:
% javaws https://nanolms.mit.edu/coral/etc/coral-nobundle.jnlp
There is no "bundle" for the Mac.
If you do not have JRE 8 installed on your computer, please go here to download the latest JRE 8 release.
Once installed, you should then be able to go here to run Remote Coral.
IMPORTANT NOTE: By default, coral-nobundle.jnlp will not be allowed to run because of Apple's security settings. You need to go to System Preferences->Security and Privacy and either choose "Run Anyway" ( If you already tried to run it and failed it will present this to you. ) or change the general Apps setting to "Allow apps downloaded from Anywhere".
Coral is Java based and should be platform independent. However, the Coral team has only tested the previously mentioned platforms. If you feel you are comfortable installing computer software and plan to install Coral on other platforms, here are the general guidelines. Detailed instructions are not avaliable. If you are successful running Remote Coral on other platforms, we would like to hear from you and share what you did with others.
The following software is required to run Remote Coral.
If you do not have JRE 8 installed on your computer, please go here to download the latest JRE 8 release for personal use.
The first time you run Remote Coral, you will see something similar to the following dialog boxes (e.g. the embedded URLs may look different).
Make sure Always trust content from this publisher is checked and choose Run
Make sure Remember this option/For site https://nanolms.mit.edu/coral is checked and choose Proceed
This is Coral starting up.
This is Coral's login window. Use your MTL MUMMS username and password to login.
If you would like to upgrade or reinstall your Remote Coral bundle, simply delete the entire coral-remote directory and follow the installation instructions for your platform. For example, Windows users would:
C:\coral-remote.
If you are having trouble running Remote Coral on your computer, then you can try running
MTL-NANO Coral from within your local web browser such as Internet Explorer or Firefox as described below.
NOTE: The few tests done on mobile devices (e.g. tablets, phones) showed that the Coral client
would not work properly thus it is best to stick to traditional laptop/desktop browsers.
When you click on the link below, you'll be taken to the MTL-NANO Coral login window. From here, you can use
the MTL-NANO Coral client as you normally would. When you are done using MTL-NANO Coral and exit the client,
you will be shown a screen stating Session Ended... with a button stating New session.
If you would like to run MTL-NANO Coral again, click on this button or simply close your browser window/tab.
