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Hello Jeremy, We are trying to do get SLIC installed at Lyon (France), and with your new instructions we run into a problem on a Scientific Linux 5.8 (Boron). We get an error that OSDetect is not defined. Can you please suggest how to go forward, or how we can resurrect the old SimDist? Best, Maurik On Apr 24, 2013, at 11:50 PM, "McCormick, Jeremy I." <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hello, > > If you install the SLIC simulation tool on your local site, then please read the following carefully... > > The SimDist package that has been used to build SLIC and its dependencies for many years is now functionally obsolete. > > Instead of SimDist, SLIC can now be built using the ilcstall tool. > > Obtaining and using that package is covered here: > > http://ilcsoft.desy.de/portal/software_packages/ilcinstall/ > > You will just need a local installation of python to run it. > > Once you check it out anonymously from SVN following that website's instructions, you should be able to build slic like this: > > python ilcsoft-install -i ./examples/slic/release-scratch.cfg > > By default, this will create a build that shows up here: > > /scratch/jeremym/slic/v00-00/ > > > > The "jeremym" in that path, used subsequently here for examples, will actually be replaced by your user name for your installation: > > > > /scratch/$USER/slic/v00-00/ > > If you want to change the location of the installation, then edit the file: > > ilcinstall/examples/slic/release-versions.py > > > > And change the value of the variable "ilcsoft_install_prefix" to your preferred installation directory. > > You can then run slic as follows: > > source /scratch/jeremym/slic/v00-00/init_ilcsoft.sh > > $SLIC/build/bin/slic [args] > > For now, you will need to manually point to the particle table in HepPDT, if you need the extended particle dataset. > > > > $SLIC/build/bin/slic -P /scratch/jeremym/slic/v00-00/heppdt/3.04.01/data/particle.tbl [args] > > > > This build has been checked on a current version of OSX, as well as a few flavors of Linux. Currently, there is no native support for Windows. > > If you have any problems with it, let me know and I'll help you try and get a working build. > > --Jeremy > > ######################################################################## > Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list > > To unsubscribe from the HPS-SOFTWARE list, click the following link: > https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=HPS-SOFTWARE&A=1 > <winmail.dat> ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the HPS-SOFTWARE list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=HPS-SOFTWARE&A=1