Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Thomas Birke <[email protected]> · Fri, 07 Dec 2007 06:37:23 +0100

Umashankar Panda schrieb:

Dear All,
I am trying to use EPICS in Debian 4.0 latest release. But I am unable
to build the base itself.  I feel some more packages are to be
installed.
I am requesting those who have used EPICS on Debian based linux to
tell me what are the extra packages I should load for running epics
base, medm, probe, channel archiver etc. on Debian 4.0 Linux.

I can't remember that any package was missing while building EPICS base,
but for the extensions (esp. the Motif-applications) you definitely need
a Motif-library. I strongly suggest to install the "original" Open Motif
packages (libmotif3 and libmotiv-dev) instead of the lesstif-packages.
Unfortunately the Open Motif packages are *not* available in Debian 4.0
(etch - the current "stable" distribution) and have to be installed from
the current "testing" distribution.

The Channel Archiver brings an own set of source tar-balls of ThirdParty
software-modules, that you as well should unpack, build and install to
be used when building the ChannelArchiver.
Other than that, you may have encountered some perl-modules missing. We
install these as soon as we encounter any perl-error-message like (Can't
locate XYZ.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ...).

I unfortunately don't have a list of packages at hand right now, but
I'll add a list of modules we additoinally install on our development
and our production systems later.
Additionally, some Error-Messages from the build-process or from running
the EPICS-applications will sure help to identify the missing packages.
Feel free, to send me these messages and I might remember/be able to
look up what we did here at BESSY.
Regards,
Thomas
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System