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Before proceeding you are encouraged check with your agency's Phoenix Support Coordinators as Phoenix may be distributed or installed specially within your organisation.
Process
The following steps are required, and are described in more detail below:
- Obtain a copy of the Phoenix distribution
- Install the distribution
- Set up the data necessary to run Phoenix
Obtaining Phoenix
Fire Prediction Services provides Phoenix to licensed Phoenix Support Coordinators. You should have been provided the installation package by your support coordinator.
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Ultimately it does not matter which of the two installation packages you have, they each have their own advantages, but both install the same copy of Phoenix.
Installing the distribution
Windows installer distribution
The Windows Installer will copy the files to a location of your choosing, add Phoenix to your start menu, and provide an means for Uninstalling it.
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To run the application after installation you can do so from the Start Menu.
Zip package distribution
The zip package is just a compressed set of files waiting for you to uncompress it.
Uncompress the zip package into a folder of your choosing, and then you can run the application by double clicking on the phoenix.exe file.
Setting up for your first run
The Phoenix distributions from Fire Prediction Services do not contain the data necessary for Phoenix to perform a successful simulation.
Please follow the instructions for setting up PHOENIX Input Data For PhoenixGuide.
It is quite likely that you will need to obtain agency-specific data from your Phoenix Support Coordinator.