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The following steps should work on a clean RHEL5 install and may provide an example on what is needed for other platforms.
| Step | Action | Command |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Install build utilities |
yum -y groupinstall "Development*" "X Software Development" yum install imake |
| 2 | Install openmotif development |
64-bit system: yum -y install openmotif-devel.i386 mv /usr/bin/uil /usr/bin/uil32 yum -y install openmotif-devel 32-bit system: yum -y install openmotif-devel |
| 3 | Install epel and freetds |
Look in http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel for appropriate epel-release kit and download it: wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/5Server/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm rpm -i epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm yum install freetds-devel |
| 4 | Install xinetd |
yum install xinetd |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 numpy python-ctypes | |
| Install MDSplus package |
easy_install MDSplus or cd mdsplus/mdsobjects/python python setup.py install | |