RE: CSS/Phoebus installation questions

["Engbretson, Mark S. via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

You get it from maybe the NSLS distro and copy it over.

 

 

From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> On Behalf Of Mark Rivers via Tech-talk
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2026 11:58 AM
To: EPICS Tech Talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Subject: CSS/Phoebus installation questions

 

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