Customize your login environment

Tip

You may skip ahead if you will be using GEOS-Chem Classic on an Amazon EC2 cloud instance. When you initialize the EC2 instance with one of the pre-configured Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) all of the required software libraries will be automatically loaded.

Each time you log in to your computer system, you’ll need to load the software libraries needed by GEOS-Chem into your environment. You can do this with a script known as an environment file, as described in the following chapters: