Setup of SLC6 working environment e.g. on 78.dhcp.fisica.uniud.it and stefanovm.cern.ch

Both

yum install -y screen

Both: grid clients for SL6

This needs to be modified to use UMD instad of EMI, see http://repository.egi.eu/category/umd_releases/distribution/umd-3/

30 July 2017 gfal2 and uberftp are now in EPEL and work

# middleware
# emisoft.web.cern.ch does not work anymore as of 30 July 2017
#rpm -ivh http://emisoft.web.cern.ch/emisoft/dist/EMI/3/sl6/x86_64/base/emi-release-3.0.0-2.el6.noarch.rpm
yum install -y voms-clients3
yum install -y gsissh-clients
yum install -y myproxy
yum install -y lcg-util
yum install -y gfal2-util gfal2-all

yum install -y uberftp

# certificates
wget http://repository.egi.eu/sw/production/cas/1/current/repo-files/EGI-trustanchors.repo
cp EGI-trustanchors.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/
yum install -y ca-policy-egi-core

yum install fetch-crl
/etc/rc.d/init.d/fetch-crl-cron start    # this may be needed after each reboot

# config
wget http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/wlcg/wlcg-sl6.repo
cp wlcg-sl6.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/

# WLCG packages are signed now, get the key
wget http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/wlcg/RPM-GPG-KEY-wlcg
cp RPM-GPG-KEY-wlcg /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/

yum install -y wlcg-repo.noarch
yum install -y wlcg-voms-cms

Specific for UD desktop

yum install -y cvmfs
yum install -y kdegraphics # for okular
yum install -y flash-plugin
yum install -y xterm
yum install -y VidyoDesktop
yum install -y telnet

Specific for stefanovm

see also:

• https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/CMS/CMSAISL5InstallationAndConfiguration
• https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/CMS/SetupCvmFSonDesktop

packages to add:

yum groupinstall -y "Development Tools"
rpm -ivh https://ecsft.cern.ch/dist/cvmfs/cvmfs-release/cvmfs-release-2-4.el6.noarch.rpm
yum install -y cvmfs

other useful stuff on stefanovm, even if not grid related:

yum install -y python-ipython

to run acrontab: https://cern.service-now.com/service-portal/article.do?n=KB0001704 and disable SELinux again after each reboot: =setenforce 0= acrontab support is now part of computing VM installation

-- StefanoBelforte - 13 Oct 2014