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Public RPMs installation instructions#

Below you can find the instruction on where to find the publically available RPMs for the CTA software and how to install these RPMs.

Info

The cta-release package is broken in Alma9 for CTA versions strictly before 5.11.0.1-1. This bug has since been fixed in cta-release-5.11.0.1-1 and future releases. As of 2024-11-07 cta-release-5.11.0.1-1 is available in testing.

Instructions#

1. Setup the repo for CTA-5:

Operators can choose between a stable or a testing channel for CTA:

  • stable:
    • These releases have been deployed at CERN in production successfully.
  • testing:
    • Updated more frequently, with more recent releases.
    • They are expected to work (CI testing was successful) but have not been deployed in production at CERN.

For stable CTA versions: 

cat << EOF > /etc/yum.repos.d/public-stable-cta-5.repo
[public-stable-cta-5-alma9]
name=CERN Tape Archive
baseurl=https://cta-public-repo.web.cern.ch/stable/cta-5/el9/cta/x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
EOF

For testing CTA versions: 

cat << EOF > /etc/yum.repos.d/public-testing-cta-5.repo
[public-testing-cta-5-alma9]
name=CERN Tape Archive
baseurl=https://cta-public-repo.web.cern.ch/testing/cta-5/el9/cta/x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
EOF

2. Search and/or install cta-release:

dnf search cta-release --showduplicates
dnf install cta-release-<cta_version>.el9.x86_64

or, to get the latest version:

dnf install cta-release

3. Configure CTA/EOS repos and dependencies:

cta-versionlock apply

**4. Install additional repositories

epel-release repository is needed before going further.

dnf install epel-release

5. Install CTA and EOS:

Choose the appropriate packages, as needed.

dnf install cta-frontend
dnf install cta-taped
dnf install cta-rmcd
dnf install cta-smc
dnf install eos-server
dnf install eos-client