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The following steps should work on a clean Fedora Core 10 (and 11) install and may provide an example on what is needed for other platforms.
| Step | Action | Command |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Install build utilities |
yum install cvs make imake wget |
| 2 | Install compilers and includes |
yum install gcc-gfortran gcc-c++ 'java-*-openjdk-devel' readline-devel /usr/bin/g77 yum install readline-devel.i686 |
| 3 | Install X development libraries |
yum install libXp-devel libXt-devel yum install libXp-devel.i686 libXt-devel.i686 libX11-devel.i686 libXft-devel.i686 libXmu-devel.i686 |
| 4 | Install xinetd |
yum install xinetd |
| 5 | Install openmotif |
Get the appropriate openmotif-devel rpm's from http://www.motifzone.org |
| 6 | Get MDSplus sources |
Recommended: firefox http://www.mdsplus.org/index.php?url=mdsplus/download.php&page=Software/Downloads Alternate one of: wget https://github.com/MDSplus/mdsplus/archive/alpha.zip wget https://github.com/MDSplus/mdsplus/archive/alpha.tar.gz wget https://github.com/MDSplus/mdsplus/archive/stable.zip wget https://github.com/MDSplus/mdsplus/archive/stable.tar.gz git clone https://github.com/MDSplus/mdsplus.git |
| 7 | Build MDSplus. |
Make sure that the LANG environment variable is set to a non-UTF8 locale (e.g. en_US or the generation of UID files will fail and some applications mysteriously segfault. cd mdsplus ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mdsplus make |
| 8 | Install MDSplus |
make install /usr/local/mdsplus/rpm/post_install_script |
| Install Packages for using Python with MDSplus | ||
| Install required packages |
yum install python-setuptools-devel numpy | |
| Install MDSplus package |
easy_install MDSplus | |
| Optional Packages for development and rpm construction | ||
| Install emacs |
yum install emacs rpm-build autoconf | |