BESIII software installation

BESIII software installation (release 6.5.0)

To install BES-III software one needs

PC with SLC4 installed
5-6 Gb of disk space
Recent version of Pacman
About 0.5-1 hour of time (depends on your network connection)

Installation steps

tar xzvf pacman-latest.tar.gz
cd pacman-3.*
source setup.sh
mkdir /top/level/directory
cd /top/level/directory
pacman -get http://bes3.jinr.ru/cache:6.5.0
OR
pacman -get http://docbes3.ihep.ac.cn/cache:6.5.0

It will take some time. Then one can do

source setup.sh
source scripts/6.5.0/setup.sh
cd dist/6.5.0/TestRelease/*/cmt
source setup.sh
cd ../run
boss.exe jobOptions_sim.txt
boss.exe jobOptions_rec.txt (for example)

If you have problems or questions, please contact Alexey Zhemchugov (zhemchugov[AT]jinr.ru)

Last updated 07.07.2009