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The
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full
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instruction
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is
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here
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http://drupal.star.bnl.gov/STAR/comp/sofi/installing
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The
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actual
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order
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of
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steps
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is
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loosely
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related
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to
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the
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instruction
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above.
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- Assumptions:
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- start
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- with
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- a
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- fresh
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- copy
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- of
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- operating
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- system.
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- I
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- used
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- SL5.3_x86_64.
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- you
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- have
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- full
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- credentials
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- at
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- RCF,
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- know
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- enough
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- login
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- and
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- scp
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- files
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- in
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- and
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- out
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- you
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- will
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- install
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- all
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- STAR
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- software
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- as
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- non-root
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- in
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- a
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- user
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- home
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- dir
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- (except
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- rpm's
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- for
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- which
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- you
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- need
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- root)
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- Setting
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- up
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- your
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- computing
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- environment
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- create
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- user
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- =
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- balewski
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- switch
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- shell
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- to
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- be
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- tcsh
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type
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- ps,
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- if
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- you
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- do
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- not
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- see
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- 'tcsh'
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- you
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- must
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- change
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- your
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- shell
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Code Block
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>chsh enter: /bin/tcsh
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Now
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- logout,
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- login,
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- and
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- again
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- type
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- 'ps'
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- pick
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- name
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- for
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- directory
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- for
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- STAR
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- software
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>
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- mkdir
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- star_soft
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- Set
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- up
...
- your
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- login
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- by
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- copying
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- the
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- following
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- scripts
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- from
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- RCF
>cp /afs/rhic.bnl.gov/star/group/templates/cshrc
- RCF
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- ~/.cshrc
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>cp /afs/rhic.bnl.gov/star/group/templates/login
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- ~/.login
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- tar,
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- copy,
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- untar
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- the
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- following
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- RCF
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- directory
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/afs/rhic.bnl.gov/star/group
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place
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- it
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- as
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- sub
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- dir
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- here
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- ~/star_soft/group
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- modify
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- the
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- variable
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- GROUP_DIR
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- located
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- on
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- top
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- of
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- your
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- .login
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- and
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- .cshrc
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- to
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- point
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- to
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- the
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- group
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- directory
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setenv
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- GROUP_DIR
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- /home/balewski/star_soft/group
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- add
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- to
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- /home/balewski/star_soft/group/site_pre_setup.
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- csh 2
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- defines:
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- xx
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- setenv
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- STAR_ROOT
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- /home/balewski/star_soft
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setenv
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- USE_64BIT
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- 1
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- logout/login
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- ,
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- you
...
- should
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- see
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- error:
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Code Block
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STAR: Undefined variable.
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Jerome
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- said
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- one
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- step
...
- in
...
- instruction
...
- is
...
- missing,
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- ignore
...
- it
...
- and
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- move
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- on
...
- to
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- the
...
- next
...
- step:
...
- Install
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- CERN
...
- library
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- Install
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- CERN
...
- library.
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- My
...
- host
...
- machine
...
- is
...
- SL5.3_x86_64.
...
- Ignore official instruction:
...
...
- instead
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- copy
...
- both 32 64-bit
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- compiled
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- cern
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- libraries
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- directly
...
- from
...
- rcas6nnn
...
- machine.
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Code Block
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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/*
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Scp
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- the
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- tar-balls
...
- to
...
- my
...
- host
...
- and
...
- unpack
...
- both
...
- as
...
- is
...
- at
...
- exactly
...
- the
...
- same
...
- location.
...
/afs/rhic.bnl.gov/rcfsl/
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- sudo
...
- yum
...
- install
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- gcc4.3-c+
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- +