[Rivet] Problems with installing Rivet

[Cigdem Issever]

Dear Andy, 
thank you very much for your prompt reply. I think it would be good to have the bootstrap tool could warn you. 

I was able to install rivet successfully on my lxplus account and have started to play with it. 
Thank you very much, 
  Cigdem

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Dr Cigdem Issever                       CERN, 42-R-006
University Research Lecturer        Skype-id: cigdem.issever
University of Oxford                     Tel: +41-762-762-732
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From: Andy Buckley [andy.buckley at ed.ac.uk]
Sent: 19 April 2013 12:36
To: Cigdem Issever
Cc: rivet at projects.hepforge.org
Subject: Re: [Rivet] Problems with installing Rivet

Hi Cigdem,

The issue is that your environment is the default SLC5 one, so you are
picking up the system's gcc4.1 compiler... which (in the infinite design
wisdom of SL/LCG) is not a supported LCG platform!

The Rivet "Getting Started" instructions demonstrate how to set up your
environment with the LCG gcc4.3 before starting the bootstrap process:
https://rivet.hepforge.org/trac/wiki/GettingStarted

I've also added an entry to the troubleshooting page now:
https://rivet.hepforge.org/trac/wiki/TroubleShooting

If it's an easy addition, I'll get rivet-bootstrap to provide a specific
warning for this situation, too.

Cheers,
Andy

PS. You should be able to use an up-to-date pre-built version of Rivet
from the Genser repository... does that not work, or do you need to
change/fix something in the core code?


On 19/04/13 09:36, Cigdem Issever wrote:
> Dear All,
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> I am trying to install Rivet on my lxplus account at CERN.
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> I got the following error message when I executed this command:
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> [issever at lxplus434]~/build% ./rivet-bootstrap --install-agile
> --prefix=~/local
> Getting http://www.hepforge.org/archive/rivet/Rivet-1.8.3.tar.gz
> Downloading http://www.hepforge.org/archive/rivet/Rivet-1.8.3.tar.gz
> Getting http://www.hepforge.org/archive/agile/AGILe-1.4.0.tar.gz
> Downloading http://www.hepforge.org/archive/agile/AGILe-1.4.0.tar.gz
> LCG area available: using LCG-built packages
> Using LCG platform tag = x86_64-slc5-gcc41-opt
> FastJet does not exist at path
> /afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/fastjet/3.0.3/x86_64-slc5-gcc41-opt. You
> may wish to use the --ignore-lcgext option
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./rivet-bootstrap", line 510, in ?
>     sys.exit(1)
> SystemExit: 1
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>
>
> An error has occurred while bootstrapping Rivet or one of its
> dependencies. Sorry!
> Please contact the Rivet developers at rivet at projects.hepforge.org
> <mailto:rivet at projects.hepforge.org>, with a description of your
> problem, a copy of this script and any error trace that may have
> appeared and we'll try to get it fixed as soon as possible. Thanks for
> your help!
>
>
>
> Shall I just ignore the lcg external packages? But I would like to use
> fastjet for example. Can you please suggest a solution?
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> Best Regards,
>
>    Cigdem
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