5. GLAST Installer User Guide - Linux

--help,-?

brief help message

--command,-c

command to perform

--tag,-t

tag to use

--package,-p

package to use

--version,-v

version of package to use

--extDir,-e

directory where external libraries are to be installed

--instDir,-i

directory where packages are to be installed

--extOnly,-x

install only the external libraries (skip package installation)

--pkgOnly,-k

install only the packages (skip external library installation)

--pretend,-r

don't install anything

--temp,-m

temporary directory to download files to (used for some compression methods)

--keepBins,-b

don't remove bin scripts that point to non-existant binaries

--help,-?

Print a brief help message and exit.

--command,-c action

Specifies the action to perform. Available actions are: listPackages, listTags, install.

--tag,-t Tag

Narrow the results to anything that contains the specified tag.

--package,-p package

Narrow the results to anything that contains the specified package name.

--extDir,-e dir

Location where external libraries should be downloaded to. If not set it will try to use $GLAST_EXT.

--instDir,-i dir

Location where packages should be downloaded to. If not set it will try to use $CMTPATH.

--extOnly,-x

Installs only the external libraries for selected version. Doesn't attempt to install any packages

--pkgOnly,-k

Installs only the packages for selected version. Doesn't attempt to install any of the external libraries.

--pretend,-r

Don't install any of the packages. Just print out what packages it would have installed.

--temp,-m

Temporary directory used to download files to before uncompressing. This is not needed for .tar.gz files. If not set it will try to use $TEMP if set. This is only needed if $TEMP isn't defined and zip files are being downloaded.

--keepBins,-b

By default the bin directory is cleaned after download to remove any scripts that point to binaries that don't exist. Use this flag to prevent it and keep all scripts in bin.

installer.pl

List all the available tags.

installer.pl --command listPackages --tag rh9_gcc32

List all packages that are available for tag rh9_gcc32.

installer.pl --command listPackages --package GlastRelease --version LATEST1.919

List all packages that have versions LATEST1.919 and belong to GlastRelease.

installer.pl --command install --package GlastRelease --version LATEST1.919 --tag rh9_gcc32 --instDir /tmp

Install external libraries for GlastRelease LATEST1.919 compiled for rh9_gcc32 into directory that's specified in $GLAST_EXT. Install GlastRelease packages for LATEST1.919 compiled for rh9_gcc32 into /tmp.

installer.pl --command install --package GlastRelease --version LATEST1.919 --tag rh9_gcc32 --instDir /tmp --pkgOnly

Same as above, except no external libraries are installed.

installer.pl --command install --package GlastRelease --version LATEST1.919 --tag rh9_gcc32 --instDir /tmp --extOnly

Only external libraries needed by GlastRelease-LATEST1.919 compiled for rh9_gcc32 are installed.

installer.pl --command install --package GlastRelease --version v4r6 --extOnly --tag VC8debug

Installing the external libraries only for GlastRelease, where we utilize the GLAST_EXT environment variable to determine the location of the libraries.

installer.pl --command listPackages --tag VC8debug --package CMT

Enter this command string first to check the versions available using the installer listPackages command, then enter:

installer.pl --command install --package CMT --version v1r16p20040701 --extDir C:\glast\tools --tag VC8debug --extOnly

to install the desired version of CMT.