ACS 2016.2 Distribution

Current official revision is: Linux ACS 2016.2 (RH 5.5 and RH6.6)

The ACS Distribution for Linux is available in two versions:

LGPL is publicly distributable according to the Lesser General Public Licence.
NO-LGPL is only distributable inside ALMA and the partner organizations and contains few tools and extensions that cannot be freely re-distributed

Online Documentation for this release is available here

ACS Download:

ftp server

ACS is released by means of tar files

ACS-YYYY_n-ExtProd-dddd-aaaa-oo.tar.gz: (where YYYY_n is the ACS release name; dddd is the date of the build, aaaa is the architecture like i686, oo is the operating system) this archive contains the external product needed to run ACS.
ACS-YYYY_n-dddd-aaaa-oo.tar.gz: contains ACS executables and configurations i.e. ACSSW and acsdat

To install ACS from the tars:

login as almamgr
go to the root foledr (/)
unpack both the tars preserving the attributes (tar xpzf....)
ensure to source the ACS bash profile (/alma/ACS-YYYY.n/ACSSW/config/.acs/.bash_profile.acs)

The URL of the ftp server is ftp.eso.org. Please drop us a email to get the username and password.

SVN mirror

ACS source and tools are kept under configuration control in a SVN archive.

All parts of the ACS archive publicly available as LGPL are mirrored in read only mode in a publicly accessible SVN repository, while development is done on a separate SVN, that contains also some developments and tools that we cannot publicly distribute. The mirror is updated once a week.

SVN repository URL is https://vcs1.alma.cl/almasvn.
Login with username anonymous and password anonymous.

The following URL are available in the repository:

[/branches/2016-02-ACS-B/ACS]
[/branches/2015-08-ACS-B/ACS]
[/branches/2015-06-ACS-B/ACS]
[/branches/2015-04-ACS-B/ACS]
[/branches/2015-02-ACS-B/ACS]
[/branches/2014-04-ACS-B/ACS]
[/branches/2014-02-ACS-B/ACS]
[/branches/2014-01-ACS-B/ACS]
[/branches/ACS-10_1-B/ACS]
[/branches/ACS-10_2-B/ACS]
[/branches/ACS-11_0-B/ACS]
[/branches/ACS-11_1-B/ACS]
[/branches/ACS-12_0-B/ACS]
[/branches/ACS-12_1-B/ACS]
[/branches/ACS-12_2-B/ACS]
[/branches/ACS-12_3-B/ACS]

eclipse users should configure the repository with the full URL like for example http://svnhq36.hq.eso.org/p36/trunk/ACS

RTOS Installation

RTOS support requires a proper Linux kernel with Real Time patches and libraries. The procedures to install the kernel and the real time support are described here: here.