Installing software on the lofarXN machines

LuMP

This is still missing!

Pulsar Software

This is still missing!

LOFAR Software

The following is not yet tested on the most recent OS (installed on 24.6.2015 on lofarDN)

Download packages:
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  mkdir /opt/soft/lofar-stuff/Downloads
  cd /opt/soft/lofar-stuff/Downloads
  wget ftp://ftp.atnf.csiro.au/pub/software/asap/data/asap_data.tar.bz2

Download and Build Casacore:
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  cd /opt/soft/lofar-stuff/
  tar -xjvf ../Downloads/asap_data.tar.bz2
(This creates the "data" subdirectory)
  mkdir BuildDir/casacore
  cd BuildDir/casacore
  svn co http://casacore.googlecode.com/svn/trunk source
  mkdir -p build/opt
  cd build/opt
  cmake -DBUILD_TESTING=NO -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/soft/lofar-stuff -DUSE_FFTW3=Yes -DUSE_THREADS=YES -DDATA_DIR=/opt/soft/lofar-stuff/data ../../source
  make -j12
  make install   Download and Build pyrap
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  mkdir /opt/soft/lofar-stuff/BuildDir/pyrap
  cd /opt/soft/lofar-stuff/BuildDir/pyrap
  svn co http://pyrap.googlecode.com/svn/trunk dev-source
  export PATH=$PATH:/opt/soft/lofar-stuff/bin
  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/soft/lofar-stuff/lib
  export PYTHONPATH=/opt/soft/lofar-stuff/lib/python
  ln -s /opt/soft/lofar-stuff/lib /opt/soft/lofar-stuff/lib64
  cd dev-source/
  ./batchbuild-trunk.py --casacore-root=/opt/soft/lofar-stuff --prefix=/opt/soft/lofar-stuff --python-prefix=/opt/soft/lofar-stuff/lib/python
  
Download and Build casarest
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  mkdir  /opt/soft/lofar-stuff/BuildDir/casarest
  cd /opt/soft/lofar-stuff/BuildDir/casarest
  #svn co svn://lofar9.astron.nl/var/svn/repos/trunk/casarest source
  svn co https://github.com/pkgw/casarest/trunk source
  mkdir build
  cd build
  cmake -DCASACORE_ROOT_DIR=/opt/soft/lofar-stuff -DBUILD_ALL=1 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/opt/soft/lofar-stuff ../source
  make -j12
  make install

Download and Build the LOFAR Software
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  mkdir /opt/soft/lofar-stuff/BuildDir/lofarsoft
  cd /opt/soft/lofar-stuff/BuildDir/lofarsoft
  svn checkout --ignore-externals https://svn.astron.nl/LOFAR/branches/LOFAR-Release-2_6 LOFAR
username: lofar-guest
password: lofar-guest
  mkdir -p build/gnu_opt
  cd build/gnu_opt
  cmake -DCASACORE_ROOT_DIR=/opt/soft/lofar-stuff -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DUSE_OPENMP=ON -DBUILD_PACKAGES="ParmDB Calibration DP3 Pipeline MSLofar Deployment LofarFT" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/opt/soft/lofar-stuff ../../LOFAR/
  make -j12
  make install