Installing a release of the Offline Atlas Software

This document presents the general recipe to install a release of the Offline Atlas software from the Pacman-based distribution kit

Preconditions to be satisfied before any installation

Those preconditions describe the context in which the software has been originally built and tested. Good results are expected when the installation operations are achieved in this context. However, several users have already experienced installing the kit on small variants (Redhat9, gcc33, etc), with no or few manual patches.

• Linux Redhat73

• gcc version 2.3

• pacman 2.116

Installing the Atlas Software

Due to this version of pacman, installing several different releases must be done in completely independent directories. This of course costs some waste of disk space since many pieces will be duplicated. The new versions of pacman (3.x) which are about to come (around september 2004) will solve this problem, and installation of multiple releases that really share common resources will become possible

1. Select a fresh installation directory
2. Setup or verify the gcc32 compiler
3. Setup pacman
4. Install the selected release
5. Setup the runing environment
6. Use the KitValidation suite to validate your installation
7. Run athena with existing algorithms
8. Develop a piece of software against the installed release

-- ChristianArnault - 01 Sep 2004