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:
or, to get the latest version:
3. Configure CTA/EOS repos and dependencies:
**4. Install additional repositories
epel-release repository is needed before going further.
5. Install CTA and EOS:
Choose the appropriate packages, as needed.
Note:
The RPM dependency cta-lib-catalogue-occi requires Oracle Instant Client to be installed. At the moment, this needs to be performed manually with: