Installing VDK

Installing the Vital AI Development Kit

Download the Vital AI Development Kit

After signing up for an account on the vital.ai dashboard,
subscribe to the Vital AI Development Kit (VDK) from the Products page. Under
My Products, you will find downloads for a distribution of the VDK (tar.gz/zip),
the VDK install script, the VDK uninstall script, VDK documentation, and a vital.ai
license file which will enable you to use the VDK on your computer.

Install the Vital AI Development Kit

On Mac OSX, Linux, or Cygwin

• Download the VDK distribution (tar.gz/zip), the VDK install script and the
  license file. Do not decompress the distribution.

• Set your VITAL_HOME environment variable to a directory on your file system.

• Add VITAL_HOME/vitalsigns/bin and VITAL_HOME/vitalservice/bin
  to your PATH environment variable.

• In a terminal window, navigate to the directory into which you downloaded the
  VDK distribution and the VDK install script.

• Render the VDK install script executable by entering:

  chmod u+x ./vdk-install-0.2.250.sh

• Install the VDK in your VITAL_HOME directory by entering:

  ./vdk-install-0.2.250.sh $VITAL_HOME .

• Place the downloaded license file into the vital-license directory within
  your VITAL_HOME.

Uninstalling the Vital Development Kit

On Mac OSX, Linux, or Cygwin

• Download the vdk uninstall script.

• In a terminal window, navigate to the directory into which you downloaded the VDK uninstall script.

• Render the VDK uninstall script executable by entering:

  chmod u+x ./vdk-uninstall-0.2.250.sh

• Uninstall the VDK by entering:

  ./vdk-uninstall-0.2.250.sh $VITAL_HOME .