Obtaining the source

The following assumes that your current shell is bash. If you are uncertain whether this is the case, type bash now

Download the rave source from http://www.hepforge.org/downloads/rave.
svn co http://svn.hepforge.org/rave/trunk rave_svn
Download the org.lcsim plugin from http://stop.itp.tuwien.ac.at/websvn/listing.php?repname=lcsimrave

Building Rave at SLAC

You will need autotools to build Rave from source. The installation was successfully tested with

Jeremy McCormick has set these up at SLAC. Simply
source /nfs/slac/g/lcd/mc/prj/scripts/setup-autotools.sh

cd <rave-dir>
./configure --prefix=<installation-dir>

make
make install