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Subject: CSS/Phoebus installation questions
From: Mark Rivers via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
To: EPICS Tech Talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:58:03 +0000
Folks,

I am trying to install Phoebus on Windows.  When I go to ORNL site (https://controlssoftware.sns.ornl.gov/css_phoebus/) it says this:

  1. For Linux, install Java. Suggested is the current one from Open JDK. For Windows or Mac OS X, Java is included in the `phoebus...zip`.
  2. Download the `phoebus-*.zip` for your architecture
I downloaded the nightly build from August 11, 2026 and extracted it.  It contains this directory:

phoebus-4.7.4-SNAPSHOT

That surprises me, I would have thought it should be a 5.x or 6.x release?

This is the contents of that directory:

 Directory of C:\Users\rivers\Downloads\phoebus-win\phoebus-4.7.4-SNAPSHOT

10/13/2026  11:49 AM    <DIR>          .
10/13/2026  11:48 AM    <DIR>          ..
10/13/2026  11:49 AM    <DIR>          doc
10/13/2026  11:49 AM    <DIR>          lib
10/13/2026  11:48 AM               951 phoebus.bat
10/13/2026  11:48 AM                93 phoebus.desktop
10/13/2026  11:48 AM               978 phoebus.sh
10/13/2026  11:48 AM               499 phoebus.xml
10/13/2026  11:48 AM             3,302 product-4.7.4-SNAPSHOT.jar
10/13/2026  11:48 AM               201 settings.ini
10/13/2026  11:48 AM            73,006 settings_template.ini
               7 File(s)         79,030 bytes
               4 Dir(s)  195,588,313,088 bytes free

I don't see a JDK there, but the instructions say that Java is included in the phoebus...zip file.

Am I missing something?

I also tried downloading the latest 6.0.0 .zip file form Github.  That contains the directory

product-6.0.0 

That directory contains:

Directory of C:\Users\rivers\Downloads\phoebus-win-6.0.0\product-6.0.0

10/13/2026  11:55 AM    <DIR>          .
10/13/2026  11:54 AM    <DIR>          ..
10/13/2026  11:55 AM    <DIR>          doc
10/13/2026  11:55 AM    <DIR>          lib
10/13/2026  11:54 AM               951 phoebus.bat
10/13/2026  11:54 AM                93 phoebus.desktop
10/13/2026  11:54 AM               978 phoebus.sh
10/13/2026  11:54 AM             6,060 product-6.0.0.jar
10/13/2026  11:54 AM             5,828 README.md
               5 File(s)         13,910 bytes
               4 Dir(s)  194,714,386,432 bytes free

That also does not contain a JDK.

Is the recommendation to install from Github and then install the JDK separately?

Thanks,
Mark







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RE: CSS/Phoebus installation questions Engbretson, Mark S. via Tech-talk
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