Re: EPICS in Debian 4.0 Linux

[Thomas Birke <Thomas.Birke@bessy.de>]

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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