IPacMan V.snapshot installation instructions

FOR ESO INTERNAL USE ONLY!

1  IPacMan V.snapshot

The latest version of IPacMan is V.snapshot. Before trying to install and run it, you should read the release notes and the the current list of known problems.

2  IPacMan V.snapshot System Requirements

Details of memory and CPU usage are not available at this time.

3  Installing and running IPacMan V.snapshot

To install IPacMan V.snapshot you will need to retrieve the distribution kits for your architecture, unpack and install them, and start the ipacman executable.
Note
In order to retrieve the distribution kits, you may need to configure your Web browser so that it knows how to deal with the files we distribute -- either gzipped tar files (.tar.gz filename extension; Unix, Linux) or zip files (.zip extension; Windows).

If you click on one of the links below, your browser should display a file selection panel; if you end up instead with a page full of strange characters, you definitely need to configure your browser.

Alternatively, try clicking on the link while holding the Shift key down.

3.1  Solaris, HP-UX and Linux

  1. Change directory to where you want to install IPacMan V.snapshot -- in the following, we'll call this directory the installation directory.

  2. Retrieve the Unix distribution kit for V.snapshot into the installation directory:

  3. It is recommended that you retrieve V.1.4.1 of the Java Runtime Environment for your architecture into the installation directory: Solaris, HP-UX or Linux.

    Alternatively, if the Java Runtime Environment is already installed on your system and accessible from your account, you should verify the local JRE installation by trying to run the
        jre -version
    command -- it must correspond to V.1.4.1 or later.

  4. Run the following sequence of commands:
        gunzip -c ipacman-snapshot.tar.gz | tar xovf -
        cd ipacman-snapshot
        make     This completes the installation process.
To run the executable, just add <installation-directory>/ipacman-snapshot/bin to your $PATH environment variable, then give the
    ipacman
command, possibly after issuing rehash.

Important notes

  1. the environment variable $JAVA_HOME must be correctly set in order for the Unix version of IPacMan to run. When in doubt, one should best unset it and let the system choose the default value.

$Revision: 1.3 $, Last modified: Fri Dec 20 11:12:18 MET 2002