Installing software on the lofarXN machines

LuMP

This is still missing!

Pulsar Software

This is still missing!

LOFAR Software

This is for a hopefully soon-to-be-old version of the LOFAR software. It 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 -p 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 -j20
  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 -j20
  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 -j20
  make install