Recommended Software to Install / Maintain

(Last updated: 2026-09-29 17:34:52 UTC)

WARNING: This page is obsolete.

Please look at https://atlas-computing.docs.cern.ch/operations/cvmfs-software/alrb.html#details-of-tools-and-supported-platforms.

This is a list of software versions that user support recommends you maintain on your computer. These will be installed by manageTier3SW and available through ATLASLocalRootBase for users. Note that CernVM users and OSes having cvmfs mounted will have these available from cvmfs.

Versions are mostly not listed here; To see what versions are available and maintained, please type

setupATLAS
showVersions

Requests to install specific software versions should be directed to atlas-adc-tier3sw-install@NOSPAM.cern.ch.

Name	Specific Recommended / Tested Version	Comments	Additional Contacts	Links	Release Notes
OS	SL 6	Recommend 64-bit OS		Instructions	SL Home
ATLASLocalRootBase					Release Notes
agis			Alessandro Di Girolamo (Alessandro.Di.Girolamo@NOSPAM.cern.ch)
Atlantis			atlas-atlantis-developers@NOSPAM.cern.ch	Home
AtlasSetup			Shuwei Ye (yesw@NOSPAM.bnl.gov)
boost		internal use by PoD
cmake			Attila Krasznahorkay (attila.krasznahorkay@NOSPAM.cern.ch)	Cmake Home
CMT		Internal use by asetup
Davix				Home
DQ2Client		Obsolete. Use rucio.			Release Notes
EIClient			Julius Hrivnac (Julius.Hrivnac@NOSPAM.cern.ch)
emi
FAXTools			Ilija Vukotic (Ilija.Vukotic@NOSPAM.cern.ch)
fftw		internal use by root
Ganga			Mark Slater (mslater@NOSPAM.cern.ch)		Release Notes
gcc
gccxml		internal use by root
git		requested by Nils	Karolos Potamianos (karolos.potamianos@cern.ch)
gsl		internal use by root
hdf5		requested by IML group			Home page
lcgenv			genser-dev@NOSPAM.cern.ch	Usage
Pacman					BU Notes
panda-client			Tadashi Maeno (tmaeno@NOSPAM.cern.ch)		CERN Twiki Notes
PoD				Documentation
pyAmi			ami@NOSPAM.lpsc.in2p3.fr
python
rcSetup
root			Attila Krasznahorkay (attila.krasznahorkay@NOSPAM.cern.ch), Nils Krumnack (nils.erik.krumnack@NOSPAM.cern.ch), Will Buttinger (will@NOSPAM.cern.ch)	ROOT Home
rucio-clients			atlas-adc-ddm-support@NOSPAM.cern.ch
sft				Usage
sw-mgr			Alessandro De Salvo (Alessandro.De.Salvo@NOSPAM.cern.ch)
xrootd			Ilija Vukotic (Ilija.Vukotic@NOSPAM.cern.ch)

For users

If you installed manageTier3SW package, you can login to your ATLAS administrator account and simply type updateManageTier3SW.sh to update to the above versions. (CernVM users: this is done for you centrally so you should not do anything.)

-- AsokaDeSilva - 29 May 2008