Debian class systems

As of release 1.11, we provide a Debian binary package (32 bit package for Intel/AMD). We have tested that the package works properly on Ubuntu and Debian systems. To install it, please perform the following tasks:
  1. Download the package from http://www.mcstas.org/download
  2. As root, issue the command
    apt-get install perl perl-Tk gcc libc6-dev libg2c0 pdl bash
  3. Optionally, as root, issue the commands
    apt-get install openssh-client openssh-server
    apt-get install mpich-bin libmpich1.0c2 libmpich1.0-dev to benefit from MPI and SSH grid parallelization
  4. As root, issue the command
    dpkg-reconfigure dash
    and say 'no' to install dash as /bin/sh.
  5. As root, issue the command
    dpkg -i mcstas-1.11-i686.deb. This later step may be replaced by a ./configure; make; make install procedure after extraction of the Mctas tarball (see below)
Updating your operating system to a new release may in some cases require you to re-install McStas following the procedure above. We hope to make a so-called apt repository available in the future, which will ensure automatic upgrade of McStas in case of a new release.



root 2011-06-03