Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope

Installing the Fermi Science Tools (v10r0p5)

The version of the Fermi Science Tools available on this page is not the current version. Unless you have a specific reason, you should use the current version.

Note: The previous version of the Fermi science tools (v9r33p0) can be found here.

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-2.5.so

where the 2.5 is the libc version.

Please read the release notes.

Current software version v10r0p5, released Jun 24, 2015.

Downloading and installing the Fermi science tools from the binary tar files below is strongly recommended. The many minor variations in the various Unix systems makes building the tools from source challenging.

This list gives the systems that the HEADAS distribution of the Fermi science tools have been successfully built from source and tested. We give the Release (Code Name), Kernel Version, GCC Version, and Architecture. If you use one of the systems below, we recommend using one of the binary builds that most closely matches your system.

  • Scientific Linux release 6 (Carbon), 2.6.32, gcc version 4.4.7, x86_64
  • Scientific Linux release 5 (Carbon), 2.6.18, gcc version 4.1.2, x86_64

This list gives the systems that the HEADAS distribution of the Fermi science tools have been successfully tested on (but not built) and gives the Release (Code Name), Kernel Version, GCC Version, and Architecture. If you use one of the systems below, we recommend using one of the binary builds that most closely matches your system.

  • Scientific Linux release 7 (Nitrogen), 3.10.0-229, gcc version 4.8.3, x86_64
  • Scientific Linux release 6 (Carbon), 2.6.32, gcc version 4.4.7, x86_64
  • Scientific Linux release 5 (Boron), 2.6.18, gcc version 4.1.2, x86_64
  • Scientific Linux release 5 (Boron), 2.6.18, gcc version 4.1.2, i686 i386
  • Darwin 13.4.0 (Mavericks), xnu-2422.90.20~2/RELEASE_X86_64, Apple LLVM version 5.1 (clang-503.0.40), x86_64
  • Darwin 14.3.0 (Yosemite), xnu-2782.30.4~4/RELEASE_X86_64 , Apple LLVM version 6.1.0 (clang-602.0.53), x86_64
  • Fedora release 20 3.18.9-100, gcc version 4.8.3, x86_64
  • Fedora release 21, 3.18.9-200, gcc version 4.9.2, x86_64
  • Ubuntu release 14.04, 3.13.0-24-generic, gcc version 4.8.2, x86_64
  • Ubuntu release 14.10, 3.16.0-23-generic, gcc version 4.4.7, x86_64

If your system doesn't match one of the tested systems. We suggest using one of the binary builds that most closely matches your system. So if you are running a 64 bit operating system with libc-2.12 (see above for determining this) we suggest that you try the Scientific Linux 6 64 bit libc 2.12 distribution.

We have binary distributions for:

We have binary distributions that do not include ROOT (no GUI's) if ROOT is causing a problem on your system:

Instructions for installing the tools from the binary tarfile are here

We only recommend trying to install the Fermi science tools from the source distribution if the binary distribution has failed. This list gives the systems that the HEADAS distribution of the Fermi ScienceTools have been successfully built and tested on and gives the Release (Code Name), Kernel Version, GCC Version, and Architecture.

  • Scientific Linux release 6 (Carbon), 2.6.32, gcc version 4.4.6, x86_64
  • Scientific Linux release 5 (Boron), 2.6.18, gcc version 4.1.2, i686 i386
  • Scientific Linux release 5 (Boron), 2.6.18, gcc version 4.1.2, x86_64

The package with the source distribution is here.

The package with the source distribution for Darwin 15.6.0 (elCapitan) here. The know issues for this package are 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 then please submit a bug report and include this information with your question:

a) The version of the operating system you are using e.g. Scientific Linux release 6.5 (Carbon)

and

uname -a
Linux xxxxx 2.6.32-504.1.3.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Nov 11 14:19:04 CST 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

b) the results of the env command e.g.
env > env.txt

c) the name of the tar file you downloaded from the FSSC and used to install the Fermi Science tools

If you are building the tools from the source distribution please also include

d) The version of the compiler
gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-4)

You can send your query via the FSSC helpdesk.

The Fermi science tools will not run on the following systems. We suggest installing and running a Virtual Machine of one of the above distributions.

  • Mac OSX Tiger
  • Max OSX Leopard
  • Any Max OSX PPC distribution
  • Any Windows distribution