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How can I build the complete ACS from scratch?
This FAQ explains how you can build and install ACS completely from scratch.
It will mostly point you to other pages and FAQs.
In order to build ACS you have to:
The basic external tools (ACE/TAO, JacORB, OmniORB and some more) are a pre-requisite for building ACS and in principle you could also use a version coming with the OS.
Actually this is what some external (non-ALMA) ACS users do.
In practice you would have to be very careful, because we have applied some patches to these tools to fix problems.
A generic description of machine configuration (albeit currently out of date) is in these documents:
You might also find useful information in the wiki pages describing how to port/install ACS on other versions of Linux or even other operating systems. These pages are maintained by non-ALMA projects: