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The ILC group has a great guide on setting up most of this software on Windows and Linux. Though it is a bit dated, it is still useful.

Table of Contents

Notes

Software to Install
  • Java
  • Java Analysis Suite 3 (JAS3)
  • Netbeans
  • org.lcsim and associated libraries
  • Data files
Operating Systems

This guide will be primarily written for UNIX users, but everything should work on Windows as well. Most of the software already has guides for installation in both Linux and Windows environments. (OSX support?)

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In GNOME3, and perhaps other DE's, JAS3 may have buggy dropdown menus while the application window is maximized. You'll have to manually resize it to almost fullscreen fullscreen.

Netbeans

As mentioned in the Tutorial page, the current version of Netbeans (7) has Maven support. To get the org.lcsim packages, follow the instructions on this page. The Netbeans dialog is different from the Tortoise one shown, but the same fields apply.

Netbeans crashes when I try to use the CVS checkout, so I use the command line;

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$ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.freehep.org:/cvs/lcsim co lcsim

and then open the lcsim project from the File -> Open Project menu in Netbeans.

Next, right click the project org.lcsim and select Build. The first time you run this will take forever as it will download a bunch of files, but will be super fast afterwards. Now you can add the org.lcsim library to any of your own projects, or work within it.

Then do the same with lcsim-contrib and GeomConverter.

Data files

In order to run analyses, we need event data and java programs.

A variety of simulated events can be found