Difference between revisions of "Installing EPCIS base"

Revision as of 17:01, 2 April 2011

Started on Ubuntu 10.04 on my 32-bit Linux notebook. I use tcsh as Linux shell.
Download EPICS base 3.14.11, which was thecurrent stable version", in the form of tar file "baseR3.14.11.tar.gz" from EPICS web site.
Copy tar file into /usr/local/epics directory and unzip it there.MAke sure to have correct ownership of the directory.
Create a soft link /usr/local/epics/base/ pointing to the directory with the newly created version of EPICS distro.
Edit /usr/local/epics/base/startup/Site.cshrc file and comment out the line with echo $ADTHOME.
Check the /usr/local/epics/base/startup/EpicsHostArch.pl script return the correct architecture.
Source the EPICS base setup script /usr/local/epics/base/startup/Site.cshrc
cd $EPICS_BASE
make

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-* Started on Ubuntu 10.04 on my 32-bit Linux notebook.
+* Started on Ubuntu 10.04 on my 32-bit Linux notebook. I use <b>tcsh</b> as Linux shell.
 * Download EPICS base 3.14.11, which was thecurrent stable version", in the form of tar file "baseR3.14.11.tar.gz" from [http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/base/R3-14/index.php  EPICS web site].
 * Copy tar file into <i>/usr/local/epics</i> directory and unzip it there.MAke sure to have correct ownership of the directory.
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 * Edit <i>/usr/local/epics/base/startup/Site.cshrc</i> file and comment out the line with <b>echo $ADTHOME</b>.
 * Check the <i>/usr/local/epics/base/startup/EpicsHostArch.pl</i> script return the correct architecture.
+* Source the EPICS base setup script <i>/usr/local/epics/base/startup/Site.cshrc</i>
+* <i>cd $EPICS_BASE </i>
+* <i>make </i>