Experimental Physics and
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Mark Rivers <[email protected]> · Fri, 27 Sep 2013 11:08:24 +0000

Although Andrew said that not too many EPICS users run Fedora, we have been using it for many years as our primary EPICS development machine.  I know we have run at least Fedora Core 9, 14 and 15.  15 is what we are currently using.  This is the host that I use for developing many EPICS packages (asyn, areaDetector, modbus, mca, quadEM, etc.).  It is also our production machine that is used as the vxWorks boot host and to run about 20 soft IOCs.

Typically every distribution needs a few additional packages installed (readline, Motif, etc.) depending on what EPICS extensions and other modules you want to run.  This is done differently for each distribution, but I don't recall any common distributions that folks had real problems getting EPICS to build and run.

Mark

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From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Ganesh Jangir [[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, September 27, 2013 4:26 AM
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Subject: Re: EPICS base Installation Error- Need Help

Hi Andrew,

Could you please suggest the better Operating System (open source as well as proprietary) for EPICS , CSS development.
What are the packages, we must have other than c++ complier, perl and gnu make.

Thanks and Regards

Ganesh Jangir
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To: Vikas Kumthekar <[email protected]>
From: Andrew Johnson
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Date: 09/24/2013 08:41PM
cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: EPICS base Installation Error- Need Help

Hi Vikas,

As Mark Rivers said unless you actually need the Perl bindings to CA
your copy of Base has everything else built.  It looks like you need the
fedora RPM perl-Pod-Checker to get the missing executable.

On 09/24/2013 09:40 AM, Vikas Kumthekar wrote:
> I was just wondering if, there is any installation document which will
> help for the beginners like me.

There are not many EPICS users who run Fedora, and these kinds of
problems are specific to the distribution that you're running.  There
are documents in the base/documentation directory which give some advice
on building Base, but we don't have a supply of programmers who could
test building Base and write instructions for every Linux distribution.

- Andrew
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System