GLite on Nikhef Desktops

Notes on how to install the gLite UI tarball for Nikhef desktop use

Download the tarballs from the glite website:

• glite 3.1: http://glite.web.cern.ch/glite/packages/R3.1/updates.asp
• glite 3.2: http://glite.web.cern.ch/glite/packages/R3.2/sl5_x86_64/updates.asp

Make sure to download both the glite-UI tarball itself and the glite-UI-externals tarball.

Extracting the tarballs

• Log in as the user 'gridadm' on a Nikhef desktop, login.nikhef.nl (SL4) or login2.nikhef.nl (SL5)
• Go to the global installation directory

cd /global/ices/lcg

• Create a directory for the new tarball and 'cd' into it,

mkdir glite<VERSION>
cd glite<VERSION>

where <VERSION> denotes the full version number of the glite update, e.g. 3.1.35

• Unpack the tarballs

tar xzf .../glite-UI-<VERSION>-0.tar.gz
tar xzf .../glite-UI-<VERSION>-0-external.tar.gz

Configuring using Yaim

• Copy a site-info.def from a previous installation

cd /global/ices/lcg/glite<VERSION>
export INSTALL_ROOT=$PWD
cp -rp ../glite3.1.35/site-info.def ../glite3.1.35/vo.d .

• Modify the INSTALL_ROOT variable to point to the new version
• Run Yaim

$PWD/glite/yaim/bin/yaim -c -s $PWD/site-info.def -n UI_TAR