Fermi Science Support Center

Installing the Femi Science Tools

You can install the Fermi Science Tools using either a source distribution or using a precompiled binary. The preferred method is to use the binary distribution. If you are unsure which distribution to select contact your system administrator. On a unix command line you can find your machine type with the command

uname -m

and you should see something like i686, x86_64, or powerpc.

To determine the version of libc you can try

ls /lib/libc-*

and you should see something like

/lib/libc-2.3.4.so

where the 2.3.4 is the libc version.

We have binary distributions for:

Instructions for installing the tools from the binary tarfile are here

The package with the source distribution is here.

Instructions for installing the tools from the source tarfile are here

Errors and Bug Reports

Before submitting any bug reports please read the Known Bugs report for a listing of bugs that have been reported and are being worked on. If your problem is not covered the please submit a but report via the FSSC helpdesk.

Note:You can now setup the FTOOLS using your usual startup scripts.

Usefull Auxiliary files can be found here

HEADAS distribution of the Fermi ScienceTools have been successfully built on:

  • AMD Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 5200+, 2.6 GHz Linux version 2.6.9-67.0.1.ELsmp (root@yort.fnal.gov) #1 SMP Wed Dec 19 15:44:14 CST 2007
    gcc version 3.4.5 20051201 (Red Hat 3.4.5-2)
  • Scientific Linux SL release 4.4 (Beryllium) 2.6.9-67.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Dec 19 15:44:14 CST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
    gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-8)
  • Scientific Linux SL release 4.4 (Beryllium) 2.6.9-67.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Dec 19 15:33:37 CST 2007 x86_64
    gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-8)
  • Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.1: Wed Oct 10 18:23:28 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.25.20~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386