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| Package | Status | Date installed | Install Tool | Notes | |
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| 1 | Linux | required | 7/13/2018 and 8/28/2018 | pxe boot | Basic CLI |
| 2 | X11 | required | 7/17/2018 and 9/28/2018 | note 1 below | X11+gnome+gazillion dependencies |
| 3 | window manager | required | 7/17/2018 and 9/28/2018 | " | gnome based - working on conf file |
| 4 | desktop | required | 7/17/2018 and 9/28/2018 | " | (various convenience apps) |
| 5 | chef-client | required | 11/13/2018 | (installed by KSA) | Needed for installing YFS |
| 6 | Windows Active Directory | new authentication model (old=kerberos) | |||
| 7 | printing | required | [10/4/2018] | sudo system-config-printer | Printing will be via Windows AD IP based printing. In the meantime, configure locally using built-in printing system. Configure B048F2COPIER as a generic postscript printer. This probably needs to be rethought. A better fix involves downloading "BrightQ" Canon drivers from codehost.com. Their drivers come with instructions. |
| 8 | YFS | required | 11/14/2018 | chef-client -o slac_yfs-client | Auristor's YFS (AFS) client. Use "kinit [<userID>]" followed by "aklog" to get a token |
| 9 | emacs | required | 7/19/2018 and 9/28/2018 | gnome-software | |
| 10 | chrome | required | 9/28/2018 | d/l + yum install | |
| 11 | thunderbird | required | 7/19/2018 and 9/28/2018 | gnome-software | |
| 12 | NX | required | 9/28/2018 | d/l + yum install | NoMachine client for use with NERSC $ sudo rpm -i <nomachine...rpm> or $ sudo yum localinstall <nomachine...rpm> |
| 13 | citrix client | TESTING INC0211099 not sure if it will work | |||
| 14 | fastx | required | 9/28/2018 | d/l + tar -xvf | https connection fails, but ssh connection works. KSA has opened ticket with vendor |
| 15 | slack | required | 9/28/2018 | d/l + yum install | $ sudo yum localinstall <slack...rpm> |
| 16 | zoom | required | 9/28/2018 | d/l + yum install | (implies support for microphone, camera and speakers) |
| 17 | LibreOffice | required | 7/19/2018 and 9/28/2018 | gnome-software | calc,writer,base,draw,impress,CAD |
| 18 | python v3 | required | 9/28/2018 | yum install | |
| 19 | sshfs | required | 12/19/2018 | yum install | sudo yum install fuse-sshfs commands include: sshfs, fusermount |
| 20 | dev tools (gcc) | required | 9/28/2018 | yum install | sudo yum group install 'Development Tools' |
| 21 | filezilla | required | 10/1/2018 | gnome-software | GUI file transfer between comet2 and SLAC servers |
| 22 | Ksnapshot | required | 10/1/2018 | gnome-software | screen shot utility |
| 23 | DbVis | needed by Fermi/LSST app developers | |||
| 24 | NetBeans | needed by Fermi/LSST app developers | |||
| 25 | LSF client | convenient | 10/25/2018 | requires slac_yfs-client | requires desktop is in the lsf configuration file and allowed to run batch commands, if desktop name is not in LSF configuration, start a service now ticket to request addition Needs YFS to do run command a link for /etc/lsf.conf (likely a cookbook configured setting?) |
| 26 | VPN | required | 11/14/2018 | download | Must download from a current Cisco AnyConnect customer or SLAC (How to Connect to SLAC VPN) |
| 27 | clamav | not needed | sudo yum install clamav | Anti-virus (needed to access SLAC VPN, but not necessary on machine connected to internal network) | |
| 28 | media codecs | very strongly desired | 12/14/2018 | Many steps --> | Followed numerous "sudo yum install ..." commands from https://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/MultimediaOnCentOS7 |
| 29 | htop | very strongly desired | 12/14/2018 | yum install htop | in EPEL |
| 30 | gimp | elective | 12/17/2018 | desktop installer | Gnome installer accessed through the Window Manager menu: Applications -> System Tools -> Application Installer |
| 31 | code42 | required | 112/20/2018 | (via SU web) | Stanford supported disk backup (for local files) https://stanford.app.box.com/v/SU-SemiCustomized-CPPe-Install |
| 32 | nVidia driver/dashboard | probably not needed | -- | -- | Needed to run dual monitors. On comet2, two (DVI) monitors connected to the two displayPorts on the Quadro 2000 board work just fine with the built-in (nouveau) driver seems to work fine. |
| 33 | GTK+ v3 | elective | 1/23/2019 | via KSA | needed to build galculator. (Also: gnome-software as gtk3-devel-3.22.20-3.el7) |
| 34 | galculator | elective | 1/24/2019 | d/l from web and build | One of the few decent RPN calculator apps available for linux |
| 35 | Java | required | Needed for Cisco VPN and other apps. | ||
| 36 | hdparm | elective | yum install hdparm | Useful HDD/SSD information: $ lsblk $ sudo hdparm -I /dev/sda1 | |
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, e.g., NCSA...
- Tilde (~) does not work. Remember that LD2.0 machines have their own user databases which are not the same as the SLAC site unix user database. If you are accustomed to typing "$ ls ~lsstprod/workflows", that will no longer function. It is not clear how to implement a good, reliable work-around.
Absolute NFS file paths will be different. Using sshfs means every remote file system must have a local mount point. On central SLAC machines, "/nfs" works. However, sshfs documentation recommends that mount points be r/w by the user and, usually, /nfs is not such a candidate. So any scripts or aliases that use the "/nfs" path must be changed. [AFS/YFS is different in that if you elect to have the client installed, the absolute paths will look identical with that on a public SLAC machine.]
** WORKAROUND: On a single-user workstation in the SLAC network, the following example shows how to allow a customary absolute NFS path:Code Block sudo ln -s /nfs /home/dragon/nfs mkdir -p /home/dragon/nfs/farm/g/lsst sshfs dragon@rhel6-64:/nfs/farm/g/lsst /nfs/farm/g/lsst
- Lots of SLAC-written and SLAC-specific commands are no longer available locally, e.g., everything in /usr/local/bin
- Printing is currently possible via the unix print server, but I've heard rumors that this service might be deprecated and replaced with a Windows-based system. Also, the current print config in use on comet2 is very rudimentary and needs further thought. It does not, for example, know about printer-specific functions & capabilities, such as faxing, duplex printing, oddball paper sizes, etc.
** FIX: The "BrightQ" print drivers for Canon printers are straight-forward to install, interface seamlessly with CUPS, and offer all the features of my printer (a Canon C5255). There is a bit of a rigamorole involved (one must "register" twice, once for download and again for installation), but in the end it worked well. Get the drivers here: https://www.codehost.com/canon/ - Many users will need a moderately-to-highly customized application repertoire to work well for them. The application list above is acceptable for my (TG) work needs. But there are items that even I need only rarely and it is not clear it is better to seek them out and install locally, or to simply log into a public login machine to use. Here I am thinking of database tools, advanced development tools, TeX (and friends), more sophisticated printing capabilities, etc.
- While for may activities it is desirable to work locally, one will still need to log onto a public SLAC login machine (think licensed software, certain computing resource management functions, dealing with PPI, etc.) There are certain files and directories that I would like synchronized between the desktop machine and my SLAC environment (such as ssh keys, personal logbook, app configurations). Possibly a trscron job would do the trick, but then which copy becomes the master? I would like a smart synchronizer that allows either environment to make changes that will then be reflected in the other environment.
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