Installing SLC4 on Dell at CERN

• Setup the Port
• SLC4 Installation Instructions
  • I booted from the network but had to change the bios settings to allow this
  • I used the standard CERN settings
  • DO NOT CREATE AN ACCOUNT. Do this in the next step.
• To install new user with proper AFS
  • search for ccdbuser
  • make sure you change the home dir or it defaults to /afs/../$USER
  • /usr/sbin/ccdbuser -h /home/users/$USER $USER
• Installed the nvidia driver by hand
• sudo yum install glibc-devel
• ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/libGLU.so.1 /usr/lib/libGLU.so
• ln -s /usr/lib/libz.so.1 /usr/lib/libz.so
• sudo yum install xorg-x11-devel
• sudo yum install libungif
  • for fedora sudo yum install giflib-devel
• To install roofit with the FFT stuff
  • get FFTW from http://www.fftw.org/
  • untar and do: ./configure CFLAGS=-fPIC; sudo make; sudo make install
  • compile root with ./configue --enable-fftw3 --enable-roofit

-- MatthewLeBourgeois - 28 Aug 2008