ACS 8.0 Distribution

Current official revision is: Linux ACS 8.0.0

From this page you get access to the ACS Installation Packages for Linux RH Enterprise and Scientific Linux.

For un-official portings of ACS to other platforms/Linux distributions look in the ACS discussions for non-ALMA projects on the wiki.

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 (this download area is protected by a password)

Online Documentation for this release is available here

ATTENTION: the history for this release is a bit complicated. See the release history section below for details.

ACS Download:

Distribution	Downloadables and/or directory tree	Notes
Linux LGPL binary installation + Archive	RH 4.4: Linux/ACS-RH44.tar.gz (18/12/2008) RH 5.3: Linux/ACS.tar.gz	This is the most convenient and faster installation, full binary. This distribution includes the ALMA Micro Archive. The installation procedure is here. To upgrade an LGPL binary installation to NO_LGPL for ALMA internal usage, follow the instructions here Public download.
Linux LGPL	Directory tree	Installation procedures are described in the README Public download.
Linux NO-LGPL binary installation + Archive + RTOS	RH 4.4: Linux-NO-LGPL/ACS-NO-LGPL-RH44.tar.gz (18.12.2008) RH 5.3: Linux-NO-LGPL/ACS-NO-LGPL.tar.gz	This is the most convenient and faster installation, full binary. This distribution includes the ALMA Micro Archive and the RTOS support files in the ACS binary tree, but it assumes that the RTOS Kernel and tools have been or are installed separately according to the standard procedure described here. Once the binary distribution is installed, it will be necessary to set ownership and S-bit of some files. Look a theseFAQs for details.
Linux NO-LGPL	Directory tree	Installation procedures are described in the README
The ACS VxWorks support is not distributed in this ACS release, but is available upon request. Linux NO-LGPL binary installation + Archive + RTOS + VxWorks	~~Linux-NO-LGPL-VX/ACS-vw.tar.gz~~	This distribution includes the VxWorks build of ACS and the tools for Linux, together with Archive and RTOS. The Linux-Vx Installation Package is supposed to be used for VxWorks cross-development for ALMA, but this tar file does NOT include a VxWorks installation. For convenience we have included in the package a separate tar file with the complete VxWorks development environment configured for usage with ACS. If you do not have a valid VxWorks licence, you cannot download and use this file (protected access). For details see here. This distribution includes the ALMA Micro Archive and the RTOS support file in the ACS binary tree, but it assumes that the RTOS Kernel and tools have been or are installed separately according to the standard procedure described here. Once the binary distribution is installed, it will be necessary to set ownership and S-bit of some files. Look a theseFAQs for details.
~~Linux NO-LGPL + VxWorks~~	~~Directory tree~~	~~Installation procedures are described in the README~~
VmWare RH 5.5 virtual machine (NO-LGPL + Archive + RTOS)	Download the following zip files for Scientific Linux and unpack them in a new directory: Virtual machine config and disk 1 Disk 2	A complete VmWare 5.5 Virtual Machine with Scientific Linux 4.4 and ACS pre-configured and installed. Just unpack and double click. Loot at the README file included in the package for details. This distribution includes the ALMA MicroArchive and ADEOS kernel. Distribution is restricted to ALMA developers. Look at the following ACS FAQ for details: http://www.eso.org/projects/alma/faqs/sw/cache/11.html
Documentation	ACS Online documentation ACS_Docs.tar.gz	ACS documentation downloadable as a single TAR file

History of ACS patches (acsBUILD versions/CVS tags) for this release

ACS 8.0 is the official release.
Because of operational requirements with the ALMA OSF and of major problems with RH 5.3 and the RTOS versions, this release was actually done in two parts:

Official release for RH 4.4: ACS 8.0.0 2008-12-18
Official release for RH 5.3: ACS 8.0.0 2009-08-05

Modification and patches to the RH 4.4 release have been done in CVS on the branch:

ACS-8_0_0-RH44-backport-B

but these patches have not been included in an official tag for the release and in an official tar file (the ALMA sites always build ACS from cvs using a given tag). If you want the latest ACS 8.0.0 patches for RH 4.4, take the head of this branch and build it yourself.

Modification and patches to the RH 5.3 release have been done in CVS on the branch:

ACS-8_0_0-B

The ACS-8_0_0 tag lies on this branch. Supported platforms are:

Linux RH Enterprise 5 Update 3, Scientific Linux 5 Update 3
Linux RH Enterprise 4 Update 4, Scientific Linux 4 Update 4
RTAI 3.3 is supported on RH Enterprise and Scientific Linux 4.4
RTAI 3.7.1 is supported on RH Enterprise and Scientific Linux 5.3
ACS for VxWorks is not distributed in this release, but support is available upon request.

The following table shows the upgrade history of ACS 8.0 (updates will be done in case of important fixes or add-in additions). It also contains important notes on ACS 8.0, like major bugs discovered after the release. As a general rule, we will not update the official distribution files unless strictly necessary. The third column in the table shows the CVS tag that can be used to upgrade a standard ACS installation.

To perform an upgrade and to switch between multiple versions/patches of ACS look a this FAQ.

ACS 8.0 release history
Reason	Date	CVS tag
ACS 8.0.0 official release for RH 5.3	2009-08-05	ACS-8_0_0 (on ACS-8_0_0-B)
ACS 8.0.0 official release for RH 4.4	2008-12-18	ACS-8_0_0-pre-20081126 (ACS-8_0_0-RH44-backport-B)

CVS mirror

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

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

For more information about the public CVS archive see the Wiki Tipic:

http://almasw.hq.eso.org/almasw/bin/view/ACS/ACSContributedCode

Here you find in particular:

Complete CVS mirror of the ACS/LGPL sources and the ACS?Makefile used to build ACS from sources. This allows to build ACS from the development HEAD or from any CVS TAG
Mirror of the ACS/ExtProd module containing source for the tools used by and distributed with ACS. Some external tools (like ACE/TAO, the GCC compiler and the other GNU tools, JacORB and so on) are normally distributed with ACS in binary form.
In some cases, it might be necessary to rebuild the tools from the sources, for example when porting ACS to a new Linux distributions.
Since the tools have to be built with specific configuration options and in some cases with special patches, we provide in acs ACS CVS the sources and the build procedures.

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.

VxWorks installation

ACS binaries for the VxWorks operating system are currently available for Linux cross development host (a Solaris VxWorks installation is needed to use Tornado tools)

For convenience we have included in the package separate tar files with the complete VxWorks development environment configured for usage with ACS on Linux.
If you do not have a valid VxWorks licence, you cannot download and use any of these files:

VxWorks binaries for Linux (alma/ACS-<release>/vw directory tree) - restricted access

To install this file go in the ACS tools installation directory $ALMASW_INSTDIR and unpack the tar file with the command:

> gtar -xpzf <filename>

VxWorks branch of ACSROOT

ACS binaries for the VxWorks operating system are build under Linux cross development host.

In order to allow booting an LCU from a host where the development environment is not installed it is possible to install these binaries in some other host. We include here a tar file containing the whole set of VxWorks binaries from a Linux ACSROOT area:

VxWorks branch of ACSROOT