Difference: CactusInstallation (2 vs. 3)

Revision 301 Nov 2012 - CharlieHill

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This page contains instructions on how to install different CACTUS builds on supported operating systems.  Many of these same instructions can be found the CACTUS wiki at https://svnweb.cern.ch/trac/cactus/wiki/
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  When installation is complete, then the CACTUS software package should be in /opt/cactus
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+ On SL5 (Scientific Linux)
 CACTUS installation on SL5 is not supported by RPM/YUM and must be done manually.
 

 Install the prerequisites for the installation using YUM
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+      sudo yum -y install bzip2-devel zlib-devel ncurses-devel python-devel
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+      sudo yum -y install bzip2-devel zlib-devel ncurses-devel python-devel readline-devel
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+ Check out the code from SVN.
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+ Check out the code from SVN into the desired location your machine.
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+      svn co https://svn.cern.ch/reps/cactus/trunk
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+      svn co https://svn.cern.ch/repos/cactus/trunk
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+ Make sure you move it to the desired CACTUS root directory, which can be anywhere you have access to.  In the following steps, I will just assume the code has been checked out into the user's home directory.
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+ Be sure the CACTUS root directory trunk/ is where you want it.  In the following steps, I will just assume the code has been checked out into the user's home directory.
  Go the 'trunk' directory of the CACTUS code and build the package            cd ~/trunk/
      make
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+ The build may take a long time--on the order of an hour--so be patient.  If any errors occur, make sure that all of the above-mentioned prerequisites are indeed installed and up-to-date, and try again.

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