Disclaimer: alidock is a community-maintained tool, on best-effort basis. It has been conceived to be used in specific situations like analysis tutorials events. While alidock can be a convenient tool also for facilitate software development/deployment it is not either the official nor the recommended tool for installing experiment software. Please refer to: https://alice-doc.github.io/alice-analysis-tutorial for further information on installing ALICE software.

Run your ALICE environment from a container. Install Docker, then*:

${SHELL} <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alidock/alidock/master/alidock-installer.sh)

Windows users can install the package with pip instead.

You may need to close and reopen your terminal as advised. Run alidock now:

alidock

You are instantly dropped in a shell with a consistent ALICE environment from a Docker container. From there you can directly run, for example:

aliBuild init O2@dev --defaults o2
aliBuild build O2 --defaults o2

and it will download the precompiled binaries for you.

Your home directory in the container, called /home/alidock, is available from outside the container in ~/alidock. This means you can use your favourite text editor or IDE from your laptop, no need to edit from inside the container.

📜 Full documentation available on the Wiki.

* bash is supported, zsh should work too.