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Last update Tue Apr 27 07:56 1988 - Federico Carminati

This is the Version 3.01 of the ALICE simulation and reconstruction
software. This code will be released after the May ALICE Offline
Meeting. It is intended to offer a general purpose framework for ALICE
simulation and reconstruction. The program should not be considered
complete, and we are relying on the feed-back from users to correct bugs
and provide improvements.

The simulation program is based on GEANT3.21. A special version of the
GEANT library and a mini-CERN Library are needed to run this code.

Installation
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- Install ROOT and define the ROOTSYS symbol correctly.

- Decide in which directory you will install the ALICE sofware. We will
indicate it with <directory>

- Define the following global variables in the login script

ALICE			= <directory>
ALICE_LEVEL		= pro
ALICE_ROOT		= $ALICE/$ALICE_LEVEL
ALICE_TARGET		= `uname`
LD_LIBRARY_PATH 	= $LD_LIBRARY_PATH\:$ALICE_ROOT/lib (on all systems)
SHLIB_PATH		= $SHLIB_PATH\:$ALICE_ROOT/lib (on hpux)
PATH			= $PATH\:$ALICE_ROOT/bin

At this point you should logout, login again and check that the symbols are
set correctly

- Get the file /afs/cern.ch/alice/offline/AliOffline3.01.tar.gz

- Unpack it with

$ cd $ALICE
$ gtar xvfz AliOffline3.01.tar.gz

- install the CERN library part

$ cd $ALICE_ROOT
$ gmake cernlibs

- Install the ALICE specific software

$ cd $ALICE_ROOT
$ gmake

- Copy the file $ALICE_ROOT/.rootrc to your home directory

- run the code

$ aliroot

root [1] .x menu.C


List of changes
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Sun Mar 21 12:38:38 CET 1999 ==================================================

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AliRun.cxx
removed AliDetector::FinishEvent call from AliRun::FinishRun

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Makefile.hpux
added +Onolimit to the optimisation on the hp to avoid warning messages

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TOPDIR changed to ALITOP as it should be in this README file. 

Wed Mar 24 15:44:49 CET 1999 ==================================================

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SGI Makefile corrected

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Make-macros corrected to include the ITS*.det files in the distribution

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Code of PHOSv2 introduced, thanks to M. Volkov

Thu Mar 25 21:19:52 CET 1999 ==================================================

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Change the load order in Make-macros

Wed Apr  7 09:25:51 CEST 1999 =================================================

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AliTPC.cxx, AliTPCv2.cxx, AliTPCSecGeo.h, GeantPatch.F

The drift gas parameters updated using the recent numbers from A.Sharma.
M.Kowalski

Thu Apr  8 16:08:12 CEST 1999 =================================================

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Slight changes to M.Volkov files to correct some syntactical problems

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Changed common_ to G..._t in TGeant3.h to be compatible with P.Murat, CDF.

Fri Apr  9 08:06:21 CEST 1999 =================================================

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Restructuration of TGeant3. Common addresses are now returned by access
functions and they are all private.