Installing on Suse Linux¶
Installing on OpenSuse 11¶
In this section we assume a normal desktop install of OpenSuse 11. Not all packages are available in the default OpenSuse package repository. We recommend to add the Packman Repository to the list of configured software repositories (To do so, open Yast and go to Software Repositories).
Python¶
OpenSuse comes with python2.6 pre-installed, you can check if python is installed by doing:
> python --version
Python 2.6
If this failes with an error or a version before 2.6, please install
python first(the package is called python). You also need
the python-devel development package.
To install it, do:
> sudo zypper install python-devel
GCC¶
By default, OpenSuse does not install a fortran 90 or a C++ compiler. We
suggest using gfortran and g++. These compilers are installed with
the gcc, gcc-c++ and the gcc-fortran packages.
To install these, do:
> sudo zypper install gcc gcc-c++ gcc-fortran
MPI2¶
The Packman Repository provides an OpenMPI package. To install the openmpi packages, do:
> sudo zypper install openmpi openmpi-devel
Unfortunately the openmpi installation does not work out of the box, you need to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable and edit a configuration file first.
Setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH¶
The LD_LIBRARY_PATH must be set so that mpi4py can find the openmpi libraries. To set the variable we must first find out where the openmpi libs can be found, to do so execute:
> mpicxx -showme:link
-pthread -L/usr/lib/mpi/gcc/openmpi/lib -lmpi_cxx -lmpi
-lopen-rte -lopen-pal -ldl -Wl,--export-dynamic -lnsl -lutil -lm -ldl
We need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable to the path after the -L in the output (so in this example case ‘/usr/lib/mpi/gcc/openmpi/lib’, this may be a different path if you system is 64-bits or if the opensuse version is different).
In bash do:
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/mpi/gcc/openmpi/lib
We recommend you add this line to your ‘.bashrc’ file so that the variable is set correctly for all sessions. If you have a C shell you need to do a setenv and edit the .cshrc file.
Editing the configuration file¶
It seems that the default openmpi installation has some problems with loading an LDAP library. To check if your installation has this problem do:
> python -c "from mpi4py import MPI; print MPI.get_vendor()"
...
WARNING: ....
...
DAT: library load failure: libdaplscm.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
...
If you get a long list of warnings about DAT providers not found, you need to edit the configuration file and turn off ldap. To do so, open an editor (as root) on the file /etc/openmpi-mca-params.conf and add this line to the bottom of the file:
btl = ^udapl
After saving the file, you can rerun the python statement:
> python -c "from mpi4py import MPI; print MPI.get_vendor()"
('Open MPI', (1, 2, 8))
HDF5¶
Amuse can work with HDF5 versions 1.6.* and 1.8.*. The Packman Repository has a package with HDF5 version 1.8.1. To install it, do:
> sudo zypper install hdf5 hdf5-devel
FFTW¶
Some codes in AMUSE need FFTW 3, FFTW can be installed with:
> sudo zypper install fftw3 fftw3-devel
CMake¶
CMake is used to build EVTwin. On OpenSuse, CMake can be installed with:
> sudo zypper install cmake
GMP¶
GMP is required for Adaptb. On OpenSuse, GMP can be installed with:
> sudo zypper install gmp-devel
MPFR¶
MPFR is required for Adaptb. On OpenSuse, MPFR can be installed with:
> sudo zypper install libmpfr4 mpfr-devel
Python packages in Fedora¶
Fedora comes with python packages for numpy. You also need the setuptools package to be able to install the other python packages. To install these, do:
> sudo zypper install python-numpy \
python-setuptools python-setuptools-devel
Python packages with easy_install¶
The nose, mpi4py, h5py and docutils can be
installed with the easy_install command:
> sudo easy_install nose
> sudo easy_install mpi4py
> sudo easy_install h5py
> sudo easy_install docutils