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The name of the file you want to open.Social Networks Visualiser (SocNetV) is a flexible and user-friendly tool for Social Networks Analysis and Visualisation. It lets you create new networks (graphs) with a few clicks on a virtual canvas or load networks of various formats (GraphViz, GraphML, Adjacency, Pajek, etc) them, and modify them to suit your needs. The application can compute network properties, such as density, diameter and distances, as well as node and network centralities. Various layout algorithms (i.e. Spring-embedder, circular and in levels according to centralities) are supported for meaningful visualisations of your networks. Furthermore, simple random networks (lattice, same degree, etc) can be created.
SocNetV is being developed in C++ with the Qt GUI development toolkit. Qt is the only dependancy.
The latest version of this program can be found at http://socnetv.sourceforge.net. It is distributed both in source code and binary packages for Linux distributions. You may also compile and and run it in OS X and Windows.
To compile SocNetV, you need the Qt4 development libraries installed - most Linux distros offer Qt4 via their package manager (i.e. Synaptic in Ubuntu). You also need QtWebKit development files. For instance, in openSUSE 11+ and Debian-based distros, install libQtWebKit-devel and libqt4-webkit, respectively. If you have Qt4 and QtWebKit installed, download the archive with the source code from the Downloads menu, untar it, enter the new directory, and compile with the following commands:
tar zxfv SocNetV-0.XX.tar.gz
cd socnetv
./configure
make
sudo make install
To avoid compiling, we also offer binary packages for Ubuntu, Debian and openSUSE available from the project's website.
For Debian & Debian-derived distros, an (not always updated) version of SocNetV is in the 'experimental' repository (thanks to Serafeim Zanikolas). Add the line:
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ experimental main
to your sources.list; save it, then type in:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -t experimental socnetv
Ubuntu users may use our repository. All you have to do is add the following lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list file:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/dimitris-kalamaras/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/dimitris-kalamaras/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main
Then save it, exit the text editor, and type in:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install socnetv
This repository is signed with 61AE869C37A4FCC5A73FD02EE088941209CFE071 OpenPGP key. Until you add the PPA's key to your own system, you'll see warnings that you're downloading from an untrusted source. To add our PPA's key to your system, open a terminal and enter this command: sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 61AE869C37A4FCC5A73FD02EE088941209CFE071 If you want more information about keys and repository signing in Ubuntu, read the official instructions.
Markos Chandras (hwoarang) added SocNetV into the 'qting-edge' overlay, which also houses new Qt4 and KDE4 software. To install the qting-edge overlay type in this command:
layman -a qting-edge
To run SocNetV in Windows XP/Vista, you need to install Qt4 libraries for Windows. Then, the latest SocNetV zipped archive for Windows, unzip it, and double-click on the "socnetv" executable. The program will run immediately. Warning: this version is not tested and therefore not supported.
If you want to test the latest/current development version of SocNetV, check it out using this command (you need the Subversion package):
svn co http://socnetv.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/socnetv/trunk
or download the latest tarball from the Sourceforge SVN repository. Then, type in the commands:
cd trunk
./configure
make
socnetv
Please note that this version is not always stable.
--version | -V
Displays the version of the program.--help | -H
Displays a short help message.file.net
The name of the file you want to open.