Current official revision is: Linux ACS 8.1.0 (RH 5.3)
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:
Distribution | Downloadables and/or directory tree | Notes |
Linux LGPL binary installation
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ACS.tar.gz (ftp) ACS-8_1_0-64bit.tar.gz (ftp) |
This is the most convenient and faster installation, full binary.
This distribution includes the ALMA Micro Archive. To upgrade an LGPL binary installation to NO_LGPL for ALMA internal usage, follow the instructions here The 64 bit installation has been tested with the unit tests of ACS and ARCHIVE, but has not been used by other Alma subsystems. It is released to encourage the other subsystems to also port to RH 64 bit. ACS will give limited support with 64 bit issues. Public download. |
Linux LGPL | Directory tree |
Installation procedures are described in the README
Public download. |
Linux NO-LGPL binary
installation + Archive + RTOS |
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 will be 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. |
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Linux NO-LGPL | Directory tree | Installation procedures are described in the README |
Linux NO-LGPL binary installation + Archive + RTOS + VxWorks |
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Linux NO-LGPL + VxWorks | Directory tree | Installation procedures are described in the README |
VMware 6.0 virtual machine (NO-LGPL + Archive + RTOS) |
Download the following file and unpack it in a new
directory: Virtual machine config and disks 1, 2, 3 |
A complete virtual machine that can be run using VMware products such as Workstation, Server, or Player. It requires support for version 6.0 virtual hardware. This distribution includes the ALMA MicroArchive and RTOS kernel. Distribution is restricted to ALMA developers. |
Documentation |
ACS Online documentation ACS_Docs.tar.gz |
ACS documentation downloadable as a single TAR file |
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 8.1 release history |
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ACS 8.1.0 official release for RH 5.3 (branch ACS-8_1_0-B for later fixes targeted at the OSF) |
2010-03-03 | ACS-8_1_0 |
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:
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.
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:
To install this file go in the ACS tools installation directory $ALMASW_INSTDIR and unpack the tar file with the command:
> gtar -xpzf <filename>
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: