Installing Kits or Multi

WARNING: This page is obsolete.

Computer is ATLAS ready ?

Before you fetch a kit, ensure that the computer ATLAS-ready:

pacman -get am-CERN:Ready

Installing a Kit

(See the relevant Workbook section.)

( If you are installing for a site, you may want to also see the sections on Multi-release and Mirroring)

The ATLAS software is distributed in the form of Pacman kits. A list with releases status is also available. Note that you do not need to install Pacman - you can use the afs version at CERN instead.

Do look for the closest mirror to install the Kit - it is about 7 GB in size (as of Oct 2007) ! Note that the kits do not have the source code; they contain the shared libraries, header files and configurations that will allow you to link and run an application. For example, to install 13.0.20:

mkdir Kits
cd Kits
source /afs/cern.ch/atlas/software/pacman/pacman-latest/setup.sh  
mkdir 13.0.20
cd 13.0.20
yes | pacman -get am-BNL:13.0.20+KV >& install.log &

will install the kit for release 13.0.20 and validate it ( that is what +KV means). Check the log file install.log to ensure that validation worked and no errors were found during installation.

Validating a Kit

Do validate the kit when you install it .

At this stage, you should be able to link and run a job on your local machine as detailed in the workbook.

-- AsokaDeSilva - 28 Sep 2007