XRT HOWTO --- Install COT on the "xrtco" workstation

J.Houser & M.Weber; 2008-Mar-21


Overview

SAO is responsible for maintaining the COT planning software. When a new "production" version becomes available, a master build for the Linux platform is created, and then the binaries are installed to "xrtco" at ISAS. This HOWTO outlines how to install the binaries to "xrtco". (This information comes from Janet Houser (SAO).)

Procedure

The master build using the COT Source (with qmake of COT.pro) should only need to be done once. Houser does this master build on "shinjuku" at SAO. The resulting LinuxCOT.tar.gz is the file it builds for distribution to the workstations. That is the file you need to put on "xrtco".

All you should have to do is scp LinuxCOT.tar.gz to the "xrtco" workstation, and then untar LinuxCOT.tar.gz in the place where you want to put the COT software. The owner:group of the files are already set to solarb:solar.

Just do the following steps:

  1. cd to where you want to put the software.
  2. Copy/move the LinuxCOT.tar.gz file to that directory.
  3. Issue this command: This will will untar all the correct files under a directory called LinuxCOT/ in your current directory.
  4. The executable you want to use is called COT and it is in the LinuxCOT/ directory. It should look like this: