EPICS

Build EPICS

• from https://epics.anl.gov/

cd $HOME/packages
git clone https://github.com/epics-base/epics-base
cd epics-base
git checkout R7.0.8
make -j
ls -l bin/linux-x86_64/

• set EPICSSYS=$HOME/packages/epics-base

EPICS EDM graphical tool

• on SL6, if you see the error "Font init failed - abort":
  • confirm that xorg-x11-fonts are installed (yum -y install xorg-x11-fonts"*")
  • add the fonts to the font path (in the login scripts):

xset fp+ /usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi
xset fp+ /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi

• On ubuntu/mint, the packages could be found with aptitude:

 
apt-get install xfonts-100dpi
apt-get install xfonts-75dpi

• Reboot or...
• Get the package location with dpkg, e.g.

 
dpkg -L xfonts-100dpi

• add the fonts to the path given by the command above (normally : /usr/share/fonts/X11/###dpi):

xset fp+ /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi
xset fp+ /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi