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This document explains which steps need to be done to begin using psana.

1. Create a test release

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At this step you will be using the release creation tool to create and properly initialize your test release directory. The directory should be created at a file system to which you have the write access. Releases are explained in Packages and Releases section. Create new test release with the command like this

The newrel command requires two positional parameters: the name of a base release (in this example: ana-current) and the name of a directory which will be created for your test release (in this example: analisys-rel):

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newrel ana-current analisys-rel

This operation will create a new directory named analisys-rel the directory and populate it with few two files:

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./analisys-rel/ SConstruct .sit_release

Other directories and hidden system files may appear later at compilation stage or when you run addpkg or newpkg commands.

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