Erix Infrastructure

A prototype of the Empirical research infrastructure for clustered software (Erix) is now available for testing and evaluation purposes.

Installation

Erix requires a working Nix installation, available via http://nix.cs.uu.nl/. Mind that the Nix binaries should be in your PATH, usually accomplished by putting something like source /nix/etc/profile.d/nix.sh in your ~/.bashrc. Additionally, you should subscribe to the nixpkgs channel using

$ nix-channel --add http://nix.cs.uu.nl/dist/nix/channels-v3/nixpkgs-unstable
$ nix-channel --update

When Nix is properly set up, installing Erix is straightforward:

• Download the tarball and extract it to an arbitrary directory.
• Run the install.sh script
• That's all folks!

Erix can be uninstalled by using the shipped uninstall.sh (which, at this point, does nothing more than a Nix uninstall: nix-env -f default.nix -e Erix-1.0).