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MAD-X releases

• MAD-X current release (see changes) and previous ones are available from the releases repository.
• The source code is avalaible on the GitHub repository, which includes a Wiki on Git.
• To be informed about new releases, you must subscribe to mad-pub (see support).
• MAD-X nightly build is available from the nightly build repository. Note that this is a version under development. For a stable version please use the version in the releases repository.

MAD-X previous releases

• Previous releases can be downloaded from the releases repository.
• Older releases (pre 5.00.00) can be accessed from lxplus.cern.ch:~mad/madx/releases/old.

MAD-X local install

The following instructions assume that you downloaded the last 64 bit release from the release repository.

On Linux (all distributions)

• In a terminal, execute the commands

  mv madx-linux64-xxx madx
  chmod u+x madx
  ./madx
  

On MacOSX

• In a terminal, execute the commands

  mv madx-macosx64-xxx madx
  chmod u+x madx
  ./madx
  

On Windows

• In a terminal, execute the commands

  move madx-win64-xxx.exe madx.exe
  ./madx.exe
  

The same instructions can be followed for installing 32 bit releases and the numdiff tool (required to run MAD-X tests suites).

MAD-X on lxplus.cern.ch

MAD-X releases can be run on lxplus.cern.ch (AFS) by specifying the absolute path

/afs/cern.ch/user/m/mad/bin

(shortcut ~mad/bin) in the command or by adding it to your PATH environment variable.

The following binaries and aliases are provided:

madx          current release
madx_prev     previous release
madx_build    nightly release (at your own risk)
madx_old      older stable release

MAD-X previous releases can be run on AFS by specifying the version number m.pp.dd (e.g. 5.00.12) after the releases path

~mad/bin/rel/m.pp.dd/madx-xxxx

The alternate paths for MAD versions are deprecated but should still work (unmodified).

/afs/cern.ch/group/si/slap/bin
/afs/cern.ch/group/si/slap/script
/afs/cern.ch/eng/sl/MAD-X/pro/bin
/afs/cern.ch/eng/sl/MAD-X/pro/bindev
/afs/cern.ch/eng/sl/MAD-X/dev/bin

For interactive use of MAD-X on lxplus, it is convenient to wrap madx into the rlwrap application (see resources).

Old MADs on lxplus.cern.ch

The old versions of MAD, namely mad8 and mad9, are available in the same directory path

/afs/cern.ch/user/m/mad/bin

mad8 requires a dictionnary file named dict that can be copied from the file mad8.dict from this repository.

The unsupported old releases of MAD can be downloaded from the

• mad8 releases repository (version 8.51/15).
• mad9 releases repository (version 9.5/7).