How to obtain Pan

Pan is available for installation on your system. It has been developed under Red Hat Linux, currently is known to work on RHEL 3 and Scientific Linux 3 (probably still works on Red Hat versions 7.3 and later), and has been used successfully under Debian Linux as well. Let us know if you need to use it under a different system and we'll do what we can to help you get there.

You can obtain Pan in either of two ways:

1. Most users will want to download the current production version in the form of a tar file, available at <http://physics.syr.edu/~rsholmes/happex/pan/pan_v1.1.tar.gz> After downloading, unpack with

   tar -xvzf pan_v1.1.tar.gz

   This will create a directory called pan containing all source, macro, and documentation files, and default configuration files.
2. Experts or would-be experts may want to get the latest version of Pan from the CVS repository. (For example, you may need or want a version that fixes a bug in the current production version, or adds a feature. But note that bugs may have been added too! The CVS version has not necessarily been tested for stability.) Anyone with a Jlab account can check out Pan in read-only mode. On whatever computer system you want to install Pan on, first make sure you have CVS installed. (See CVS_howto and <http://www.cvshome.org> for information on obtaining and using CVS.) Then check out Pan using (in sh type shells)

   export CVS_RSH=ssh
cvs -d ":ext:user@cvs.jlab.org:/group/halla/parity/cvs" checkout pan

   or (in csh type shells)

   setenv CVS_RSH ssh
cvs -d ":ext:user@cvs.jlab.org:/group/halla/parity/cvs" checkout pan

   where user is your Jlab user name; normally you will need to type your Jlab password when prompted. This will create a directory called pan containing all source, macro, and documentation files, and default configuration files. If you want write access to the CVS repository (i.e., if you want to become a contributing Pan author) you must contact Bob Michaels, <rom@jlab.org>.