Authors: Jan Kotanski

Configuration tools for NeXDaTaS Tango Servers consists of the following command-line scripts:

• nxscollect uploads external images into the NeXus/HDF5 file
• nxsconfig reads NeXus Configuration Server settings
• nxscreate creates NeXus Configuration components
• nxsdata runs NeXus Data Writer
• nxsfileinfo shows metadata of the NeXus/HDF5 file
• nxsetup setups NeXDaTaS Tango Server environment

as well as the nxstools package which allows perform these operations directly from a python code.

Install the dependencies:

Download the latest NXS Tools version from

Extract sources and run

$ python setup.py install

Debian bookworm, bullseye, buster or Ubuntu lunar, jammy, focal packages can be found in the HDRI repository.

To install the debian packages, add the PGP repository key

$ sudo su
$ curl -s http://repos.pni-hdri.de/debian_repo.pub.gpg | gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring gnupg-ring:/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/debian-hdri-repo.gpg --import
$ chmod 644 /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/debian-hdri-repo.gpg

and then download the corresponding source list

$ cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d
$ wget http://repos.pni-hdri.de/bookworm-pni-hdri.list

To install nxstools scripts

$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install nxstools

or

$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install nxstools3

for older python3 releases.

To install only the python3 package

$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install python3-nxstools

and for python2

$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install python-nxstools

if exists.

To install it from pip you can

$ python3 -m venv myvenv
$ . myvenv/bin/activate

$ pip install nxstools

Moreover it is also good to install

$ pip install pytango