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the installation on other systems and we will be happy to consider
modifications and corrections necessary to make the installation possible.
-<p> The disk space required for a full installation of AliRoot is 220MB for
-the system itself and 60MB for the ROOT system.
+<p> The disk space required for a full installation of AliRoot is 360MB for
+the system itself and 120MB for the ROOT system.
<h3>gmake</h3>
cvs. Cvsup may be available soon as an alternative.
<ul>
-<p><li> <em>From a tar file</em>. This is the preferred way. Tar files
+<p><li> <em>From a tar file</em>. Tar files
for the different releases including an up-to-date file remade
- every night are available on the ftp server
- <a href="ftp://alisoft.cern.ch/pub/offline">
- ftp://alisoft.cern.ch/pub/offline</a>. The tar files include the
+ every night are available on the
+ <a href="http://AliSoft.cern.ch/offline/download/offline/">
+ Web server</a>. The tar files include the
"CVS" subdirectories for the anonymous cvs user (login "cvs"). So after
getting the full tar file, it is possible to incrementally update
the code using cvs.
<p><pre>
$ cd $ALICE
$ setenv CVSROOT :pserver:cvs@alisoft.cern.ch:/soft/cvsroot
-$ cvs login # (passwd "cvs")
$ cvs co -r Release-3-XX -d pro AliRoot
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the automatic creation a new subdirectories, the commands are:
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$ cd $ALICE/pro
+$ setenv CVSROOT :pserver:cvs@alisoft.cern.ch:/soft/cvsroot
$ cvs update -d
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<p>Therefore in order to develop one or more packages locally
(let's say the TPC) and make modifications, the following steps should be
-performed. We suppose here that the remote cvs server has been setup correctly
-as explained in the <a href="../development.html">code development</a> section.
+performed. The remote cvs server use and setup is explained in the <a
+href="../development.html">code development</a> section.
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