I re-installed recently on a new Ubuntu 9.10 system. It was actually totally painless and just took 15 minutes.
The first step is to make a directory for the EPICS software to live in. It's conventional to put it in "/opt/epics". So make this directory:
cd /opt
sudo mkdir epics
sudo chown tobin epics
EPICS consists of the EPICS "base" software plus optional "extensions". First
download the .tar.gz file containing the base distribution, and then unpack it
into /opt/epics:
cd /opt/epics
tar -zxvf /home/tobin/Downloads/baseR3.14.11.tar.gz
The default directory name contains the version number of the base distribution.
It's nice to make a symbolic link so that the directory can be referenced as simply /opt/epics/base:
ln -s base-3-14-11/ base
cd base
export MY_EPICS_BASE=`pwd`
export EPICS_EXTENSIONS=/opt/epics/extensions
export BROWSER=`which google-chrome`
source startup/Site.profile
sudo apt-get install libreadline5 libreadline5-dev
make
cd ..
tar -zxvf /home/tobin/Downloads/extensionsTop_20070703.tar.gz
cd extensions/src
tar -tvf /home/tobin/Downloads/medm3_1_4.tar.gz
ln -s medm3_1_4/ medm
sudo apt-get install libxt-dev libmotif-dev x11proto-print-dev
libxmu-headers libxp-dev libxmu-dev libxmu6
make
sshfs -o reconnect fricke@[redacted].caltech.edu:/cvs /cvs
export PATH=${PATH}:/opt/epics/base/bin/linux-x86_64
export EPICS_CA_ADDR_LIST=[redacted]
caRepeater
medm -x /cvs/cds/llo/medm/sitemap.adl