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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
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 <TITLE>Installation</TITLE>
 
-<link rev="made" href="mailto:Federico.Carminati@cern.ch">
+<link rev="made" href="mailto:webmaster@alisoft.cern.ch">
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@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ compilers). It also runs on Compaq OSF1 and SunOS. We welcome feedback from
 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 200MB 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>
 
@@ -140,41 +140,54 @@ necessary variables correctly.
 <p>At this point you should logout, login again and check that the symbols
 are set correctly.
 
-<p><li> Retrieve the AliRoot code. There are two ways to do this: the
-    preferred way is retrieving a tar file on the ftp server and the
-    slow and network consuming way is checking out the whole cvs tree.
+<p><li> Retrieve the AliRoot code. This code is available under 3 main
+    versions (old, pro and new). Check <a href="../releases.html"> the
+    Releases page </a> to select the appropriate version and get
+    the corresponding CVS Tag.
+    There are two ways to retrieve the code: the
+    preferred way consists in retrieving a tar file on the ftp server and the
+    slow and network consuming way is checking out the whole cvs tree using
+    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> The tar file(s) can to be unpacked into the $ALICE directory
+    <p> The tar file(s) can to be unpacked into the ALICE directory
     via the command: 
     
     <p><pre>$ gtar xvfz V3.XX.tar.gz</pre>
     
     <p> A script <a href="ftp://alisoft.cern.ch/pub/misc/">changeCVSRoot</a>
     is available to convert a CVS tree under user "cvs" to another
-    user. For example, <pre> ChangeRoot tpc </pre>
+    user. For example, <pre> ChangeCVSRoot asmith </pre>
+    
+<p><li> <em>From cvs remote cvs server</em>.  The setup for the access
+    to the remote cvs server is described in the
+    <A HREF="/offline/development.html#Code">Code Development section</A>.
+    The code can be downloaded via the following commands:
     
-
-<p><li> <em>From cvs remote cvs server</em>.  The setup of the access
-    to the remote cvs server is described in the Code Development
-    section. The code is dowloaded via the command:
-
 <p><pre>
 $ cd $ALICE
-$ cvsa co -r Release-3-02 -d pro AliRoot
+$ setenv CVSROOT :pserver:cvs@alisoft.cern.ch:/soft/cvsroot
+$ cvs co -r Release-3-XX -d pro AliRoot
 </pre>
 
-<p>Where the meaning of <kbd>cvsa</kbd> is explained in the 
-<a href="../development.html">code development</a> section.
+<p><li> <em> Update </em> In both cases running a cvs update command
+    will update the latest changes to the code in the selected branch
+    (here branch "Release-3-XX"). So, for a full update, including
+    the automatic creation a new subdirectories, the commands are:
+<p><pre>
+$ cd $ALICE/pro
+$ setenv CVSROOT :pserver:cvs@alisoft.cern.ch:/soft/cvsroot
+$ cvs update -d
+</pre>
 
 </ul>
 
@@ -235,8 +248,8 @@ executable will be ignored and the official version executed.
 
 <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.  
 
 <p><table id="wide" cellspacing=10%>
  <tr align=center>
@@ -282,11 +295,11 @@ as explained in the <a href="../development.html">code development</a> section.
   <td>remove link to ALIROOT subdirectory, may be this is not really necessary
       on all systems, but we do it just to be on the safe side
  <tr align=left>
-  <th>$ cvsa co -r Release-3-02 TPC
+  <th>$ cvs co -r Release-3-XX TPC
   <td>get from the cvs server the release version of the TPC files to be
       modified
  <tr align=left>
-  <th>$ cvsa co -r Release-3-02 ALIROOT
+  <th>$ cvs co -r Release-3-XX ALIROOT
   <td>get from the server the release version of the ALIROOT files to recreate
       the executable
  <tr align=left>
@@ -351,10 +364,11 @@ procedure.
 <hr>
 <address>
           <script language="JavaScript">
-             document.write("Last modified "+ document.lastModified)
+             document.write("Last modified "+ document.lastModified +" . ")
              // end of script -->
           </script>
-by <a href="mailto:Federico.Carminati@cern.ch">Federico Carminati</a>
+Please report problems to
+<a href="mailto:webmaster@alisoft.cern.ch"> webmaster@alisoft.cern.ch</a>
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