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1. Assumptions:
   1. start with a fresh copy of operating system. I used SL5.3_x86_64.
   2. you have full credentials at RCF, know enough login and scp files in and out
   3. you will install all STAR software as non-root in a user home dir (except rpm's for which you need root)
2. Setting up your computing environment
   1. create user = balewski
   2. switch shell to be tcsh
      type ps, if you do not see 'tcsh' you must change your shell

      Code Block
      >chsh enter: /bin/tcsh

      Now logout, login, and again type 'ps'
   3. pick name for directory for STAR software
      > mkdir star_soft
   4. Set up your login by copying the following scripts from RCF
        >cp /afs/rhic.bnl.gov/star/group/templates/cshrc ~/.cshrc
        >cp /afs/rhic.bnl.gov/star/group/templates/login ~/.login
   5. tar, copy, untar the following RCF directory
      /afs/rhic.bnl.gov/star/group
      place it as sub dir here ~/star_soft/group
   6. modify the variable GROUP_DIR located on top of your .login and .cshrc to point to the group directory
      setenv GROUP_DIR /home/balewski/star_soft/group
   7. add to /home/balewski/star_soft/group/site_pre_setup.csh  2 defines:
   8. xx setenv STAR_ROOT /home/balewski/star_soft
      setenv USE_64BIT 1
   9. logout/login , you should see error:

      Code Block
      STAR: Undefined variable.

      Jerome said one step in instruction is missing, ignore it and move on to the next step: Install CERN library
3. Install CERN library. My host machine is SL5.3_x86_64.
   1. Ignore official instruction: http://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/comp/sofi/installing/cern
   2. instead copy both 32 64-bit compiled cern libraries directly from rcas6nnn machine.

      Code Block
      tar -cf cernPro.tar /cern/pro/* tar -cf cern64Pro.tar /cern64/pro/* and few more dirs because they were soft-linked directly form AFS 32bit version: cernlib/i686-slc5-gcc41-opt/2006b/include/* , .../include 64bit version: patchy/4.15/bin/*

      Scp the tar-balls to my host and unpack both as is at exactly the same location.

/afs/rhic.bnl.gov/rcfsl/

1. sudo yum install gcc4.3-c++