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Antares desktop installation

Antares Desktop is essentially an executable to run on your local machine for personal use. This tutorial describes how to install and run your instance of Antares Desktop. You can refer to the comparison page for more info on what features to expect with the desktop version.

Installing

First, download the latest version of Antares Desktop for Windows and Ubuntu here. Extract the folder in your preferred directory.

Now to actually launch the server, follow the following steps depending on you operating system. At the end, it will open a tab in your browser with a server running internally.

Launching the Web Server

Note

Launching the server can takes seconds to minutes to launch.

Windows

To launch the Antares Web server on Windows, follow these steps:

  1. Use the provided AntaresWebServerShortcut.lnk shortcut.
  2. Ensure that no previous version of the server is running. If it is, locate the "AntaresWebServer" icon in the system tray and click on it. From the menu, select "Quit".

Ubuntu

To launch the Antares Web server on Ubuntu, follow these steps:

  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Navigate to the directory where the AntaresWebServer script is located. For example, if it is located in  the AntaresWeb directory, use the following command:
cd /path/to/AntaresWeb

Run the following command to launch the server:

./AntaresWeb/AntaresWebServer

Accessing the Web Server

Once the Antares Web server is running, the default web browser will automatically open to the application home page.

You can also manually access by following these steps:

  1. Open a web browser.
  2. Enter the following URL in the address bar: http://127.0.0.1:8080

This will connect you to the Antares Web server.