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Before running psana, you will also need to set the environment variables SIT_PSDM_DATA, SIT_ROOT and SIT_DATA.  The recommended way to do this is to have them set when your environment is activated, and unset when it is deactivated. Conda provides a mechanism to do this discussed here: saved-environment-variables. The complicated piece is that SIT_DATA must include the sub-directory 'data' to your conda environment, as well as where the experiment-db.dat file is. For instance, with a conda environment like ana-1.0.8, the files

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respectively (SIT_ARCH is only used for building psana software). Note, we do not set SIT_PSDM_DATA since psana defaults to use /reg/d/psdm (where LCLS data is) if it is not defined.

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