Installing METIS

Use PuTTY to log in to the server as the root user.
Run the following commands to decompress the METIS installation package:
```
tar -zxvf metis-5.1.0.tar.gz
```
Run the following command to switch to the directory generated after decompression:
```
cd metis-5.1.0
```
Run the following commands to compile and install METIS:
```
make config prefix=/path/to/METIS
make install
```

Run the following commands to set the METIS environment variables:

export PATH=/path/to/METIS/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/METIS/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Parent topic: Configuring the Compilation Environment