https://svnweb.cern.ch/trac/cactus/wiki/

On SLC5 (Scientific Linux CERN)

CACTUS installation on SLC5 is supported by RPM/YUM

1. Download the CACTUS repo file
   • cactus.repo (SLC5 64-bit) file
   • cactus.repo (SLC5 32-bit) file
2. Copy the repo file to /etc/yum.repos.d

         sudo cp cactus.repo /etc/yum.repos.d
         

3. Install the software using YUM

         sudo yum groupinstall cactus
         

4. When installation is complete, then the CACTUS software package should be in /opt/cactus

--+++ On SL5 (Scientific Linux)

CACTUS installation on SL5 is not supported by RPM/YUM and must be done manually.

1. Install the prerequisites for the installation using YUM

   1.       sudo yum -y install bzip2-devel zlib-devel ncurses-devel python-devel
            

2. Check out the code from SVN.

         svn co https://svn.cern.ch/reps/cactus/trunk
         

3. 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.
4. Go the 'trunk' directory of the CACTUS code and build the package

         cd ~/trunk/
         make
         

-- CharlieHill - 26 Oct 2012