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= Building Instructions =

Here some instructions to build SALI from source. To checkout the source:
 * svn https://subtrac.sara.nl/oss/sali/svn/trunk sali_trunk

Our building environment is:
 * Debian squeeze (amd64)
 * SLES 11 (IBM PowerPC)

See [wiki:SaliUsedPrograms here] an overview of the software packages used by Sali.

== Debian ==

 * `cd sali_trunk`
 * Now install the require debian packages:
{{{
./tools/debian_packages.sh
}}}
 * `./configure`
 * The following command will fetch. patch, configure and build the packages. The packages will be fetch from ''ftp.sara.nl''. It will take some time to finish this process:
{{{
make build
}}}
 * Now build a tarball. This can be easily copied to your installation host
{{{
make tarball
}}}
 * On our debian amd64 environment and SALI version 1.5.0. The following tarball is being produced:
{{{
sali-x86_64-1.5.0.tar.gz
}}}



== SLES == 

Same as Debian build. Only you have to execute the following command to install
the required packages:
{{{
tools/sles_packages.sh 
}}}