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.
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 v9r33p0, released Jun 03, 2014.
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.
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.
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.
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 then please submit a bug report 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.