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Package Checkout

Checking out packages from ATLAS SVN at CERN should work without problems. However, there are a few tricks to avoid needing to type your password all the time, in particular you need to setup your ~/.ssh/config file with the following configuration for svn.cern.ch:

Host svn.cern.ch svn
GSSAPIAuthentication yes
GSSAPIDelegateCredentials yes
PubkeyAuthentication yes
Protocol 2
ForwardX11 no
User graemes  # <--- Replace with your CERN AFS username, if it's different from your PPE unix account name

You will need to add your ssh public key to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on lxplus at CERN.

You should now be able to use cmt co path/package or pkgco.py package and not be prompted for a password (personally, I like pkgco.py better as there is no need to specify the path to the package; see this documentation for the gory details).

ATLAS Local Root Base

export ATLAS_LOCAL_ROOT_BASE=/cvmfs/atlas.cern.ch/repo/ATLASLocalRootBase
alias setupATLAS='source ${ATLAS_LOCAL_ROOT_BASE}/user/atlasLocalSetup.sh'

or this (csh, tcsh):

setenv ATLAS_LOCAL_ROOT_BASE /cvmfs/atlas.cern.ch/repo/ATLASLocalRootBase
alias setupATLAS 'source ${ATLAS_LOCAL_ROOT_BASE}/user/atlasLocalSetup.csh'

(Usually it's best to add these lines to your shell's startup scipts, e.g., .bashrc.)

Then run setupATLAS:

ppepc145:~$ setupATLAS
...Type localSetupAGIS to setup AGIS
...Type localSetupDQ2Client to use DQ2 Client
...Type localSetupEmi to use emi
...Type localSetupFAX to use FAX
...Type localSetupGanga to use Ganga
...Type localSetupGcc to use alternate gcc
...Type localSetupMana to setup mana
...Type localSetupPacman to use Pacman
...Type localSetupPandaClient to use Panda Client
...Type localSetupPyAMI to setup pyAMI
...Type localSetupPoD to setup Proof-on-Demand
...Type localSetupROOT to setup (standalone) ROOT
...Type localSetupRucio to setup Rucio
...Type localSetupXRootD to setup XRootD
...Type showVersions to show versions of installed software
...Type asetup to setup a release (changeASetup to change asetup version)
...Type rcSetup to setup an ASG release (changeRCSetup to change rcSetup ver.)
...Type diagnostics for diagnostic tools
...Type helpMe for more help
...Type printMenu to show this menu

Please see ATLASLocalRootBase documentation for more information.

asetup

After setting up ATLAS Local Root Base, simply use the usual asetup command to setup your desired athena release, e.g.,

ppepc145:~/dev/trk$ asetup 17.2.11.15,here
AtlasProduction/17.2.11.15 with platform i686-slc5-gcc43-opt
at /cvmfs/atlas.cern.ch/repo/sw/software/i686-slc5-gcc43-opt/17.2.11
Test area: /afs/phas.gla.ac.uk/user/g/graeme/dev/trk

Athena Releases at Glasgow

Glasgow PPE machines have CVMFS (CERN Virtual Machine File System) installed on them, which allows very efficient access to all current ATLAS releases. Access to releases (and other useful ATLAS software) is done with the setupATLAS command, itself hosted on CVMFS.

New users should contact Shane Kelly by e-mail (room 238, s.kelly@gla.ac.uk) in order to be placed on the PPE mailing list.

N.B.: We will endevour to keep this page up to date with recent Atlas software releases.

Release 14.2.25.5

<--For now, please see the following logfile_14.2.0_setup and logfile_14.1.0.4_setup for some instruction. Note these logfiles are not written with the aim of being instructions for setup, but do contain useful information. -->

Local Computing

It is possible to run Athena - the Atlas computing framework - locally from this home area.

Below are instructions on setting up locally, so that one might run an Athena job from a Glasgow desktop.

N.B We will endevour to keep this page up to date with recent Atlas software releases.

Current Atlas Release: v14

Setting up v14 Locally

Local setup instructions to follow below.

For now, please see the following logfile_14.2.0_setup and logfile_14.1.0.4_setup for some instruction. Note these logfiles are not written with the aim of being instructions for setup, but do contain useful information.

-- CatherineWright - 28 Jul 2008

-- CatherineWright - 15 Jul 2008