Experimental Physics and
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"Pearson, Matthew R." <[email protected]> · Fri, 27 Sep 2013 10:32:52 -0400

Hi Ganesh,

I recently went through this process for CentOS 6.4, so in case it's useful I'll list below the packages I had to install to get everything working (base, support modules, IOCs built, channel access working, procServ installed, CSS running). This was from a basic 64-bit CentOS install:

# Install EPEL repo and procServ
wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh epel-release*rpm
yum -y install procServ
rm epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

# Install other libraries
yum -y install bzip2-devel
yum -y install numpy
yum -y install python-devel
yum -y install java7
yum -y install gcc-c++
yum -y install readline-devel
yum -y install perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS
yum -y install libX11-devel
yum -y install libxml2-devel
yum -y install libpng-devel
yum -y install libXext-devel
yum -y install freetype-devel

# Turn off default CentOS netfilter
sudo /sbin/service iptables stop

And then I installed these, because they were not part of the basic CentOS install, and they're normally useful:

# Install specific useful software
yum -y install emacs
yum -y install nc
yum -y install ftp
yum -y install git
yum -y install telnet
yum -y install nmap

I also added myself to the sudoers file so I didn't have to be root to install all the above.

To actually do the build and run up IOCs, you will need the right environment, something like:

EPICS_BASE=/home/controls/epics/R3.14.12.2/base
EPICS_EXTENSIONS=/home/controls/epics/R3.14.12.2/extensions
EPICS_CA_AUTO_ADDR_LIST=YES
EPICS_HOST_ARCH=linux-x86_64
EPICS_CA_MAX_ARRAY_BYTES=100000000
EPICS_SUPPORT=/home/controls/epics/R3.14.12.2/support
EPICS=/home/controls/epics/R3.14.12.2

Cheers,
Matt

Pearson, Matthew R.
Data Acquisition and Control Engineer
Spallation Neutron Source
Oak Ridge National Lab

On Sep 27, 2013, at 5:26 AM, Ganesh Jangir <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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> [email protected] wrote: -----
> To: Vikas Kumthekar <[email protected]>
> From: Andrew Johnson 
> Sent by: [email protected]
> 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

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