Installing software on the lofarXN machines

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    Version as of 06:39, 7 May 2024

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    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