P2PP V.1.3.3 installation instructions

Installing P2PP V.1.3.3

Change directory to where you want to install the P2PP system.
Retrieve the P2PP V.1.3.3 delivery package
Retrieve the binary distribution kit (all versions are compatible with the OCT99 release of the VLT Control Software)
- Solaris 5.6
- HP-UX 10.20
- HP-UX 10.20 with CCS/RTAP (for RTAP installations only)
At this point you should have two gzipped tar files in your current directory. Execute:
gunzip -c p2pp-1.3.3.tar.gz | tar xovf -
This will create a directory called p2pp-1.3.3.
Execute the command sequence:
cd p2pp-1.3.3 setenv P2PP $PWD make
At this point you may remove the gzipped tar files.
Install the instrument packages you're interested in: see the instrument package installation instructions .
Edit ~/.p2pprc to suit your preferences.
You may want to set the variable P2PP_CACHE_PATH to something more specific than the default, like $HOME/eso/p2pp-cache.
For telescope installations only: special configuration information is needed in order to use the -mode V command line option of P2PP V.1.3.3.
Please contact the User Support Group for details.

To run P2PP V.1.3.3 you will need to set up some shell variables (you may wish to include these initializations in your ~/.tcshrc file)

P2PP should point to the directory where you installed the system: for instance
setenv P2PP $HOME/p2pp-1.3.3
PATH should contain $P2PP/bin; for instance:
setenv PATH $PATH":"$P2PP/bin

You can then start P2PP V.1.3.3 simply by issuing the p2pp command.

P2PP V.1.3.3 uses a number of environment variables, and provides defaults if they are not defined in the run-time environment. These variables are:

VLTROOT (deafults to $P2PP)
If the VLT software is already installed on your system, your VLTROOT shell variable is probably already set to something like /vlt/NOV97.
PRINTER (no deafult)
Shell variable PRINTER must be defined.
DSQUERY (deafult is PROBS)
This environment variable is only meaningful for telescope installations (-mode V or (-mode E command line option).
Environment variable DSQUERY should be the name of the database server; at the NTT, DSQUERY must be set to OLASLS.
RTAPENV (deafult is installation-dependent)
This environment variable is only meaningful for telescope installations (-mode V or (-mode E command line option).
Environment variable RTAPENV should be set to the name of the active RTAP environment, either CCS or CCSlite: for instance, wip5qs.

When you start P2PP, you see a printout similar to the following:

Starting P2PP with: P2PP: /home6/guest/amchavan/p2pp-1.1beta5 VLTROOT: /vlt/NOV97 ... more lines ...

by which you can verify if your shell variables are properly set.

Last modified: Fri Oct 1 11:01:36 MET DST 1999