Installation of SALOME 5.1.3 on Ubuntu 10.04 (64 bit)

NEW - According to your feedback in the comment list and my own experience, the present tutorial works with SALOME 5.1.5 on Ubuntu 10.10, Kubuntu 10.10 and the latest Ubuntu 11.04.

NEW - As the feedback from vaina, the present tutorial also works with the latest SALOME 5.1.4 on Ubuntu 10.04.

On 23 April 2010, I received the SALOME Newsletter and surprisingly read that they are advising my blog "Free your CFD" for my introduction on SALOME on different platforms. I feel pretty glad and deeply honored because this is definitely the first time I obtain acknowledgement from the SALOME official after my effort during the past more than one years. The part below is from the newsletter.

Welcome to the April 2010 SALOME Newsletter

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Solvers' corner

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"Free your CFD"

Have you bookmarked this blog. It provides useful information and tutorials on Code_Saturne and SALOME.

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To thank you for your support and to celebrate the recent release of the latest Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, I summarise the two previous posts "Installation of SALOME 5.1.1 on Ubuntu 9.04" and "Installation of SALOME 5.1.2 on (K)Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit", test the installation procedure of SALOME version 5.1.3 on Ubuntu 10.04 (64 bit), hereby share my experience and hope it truly helps.

1. Preparation. Although a "Universal binaries for Linux" was released, I still suggest to use the install wizard version to install SALOME, because both of the source code and the corresponding pre-compiled binaries of the necessities are all shipped with the package, and thus it is even possible to share these libraries with Code_Saturne (see "Compile Code_Saturne with SALOME binary libraries").

Install the g++ compiler as SWIG has to be built from source.

:/$ sudo apt-get install build-essential

Replace the executable "sh" with "bash" to avoid some trivial errors.

:/$ sudo rm /bin/sh
:/$ sudo ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh

Additionally, if it is for a 64 bit Linux, because the install wizard was written for 32 bit, a package ia32-libs is also necessary. It is of course not needed if the Linux environment is 32 bit version.

:/$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

Otherwise an error could be encounterred on the console when trying to launch the install wizard.

sh: ./bin/SALOME_InstallWizard: No such file or directory

2. Install. Download the install wizard package and extract it. Ship into the extracted directory and then execute runInstall.

:/$ ./runInstall

Sequentially, the wizard contained 8 steps, for which the screenshots below illustrate. Step 7 is for install progress. After it is started, during the install procedure, there will a warning dialog, shown below as well, poped out, complaining two compulsory libraries, libg2c and libgfortran, haven't been found. Click "OK", ignore the warning and procede until finish the last step of the wizard.




















3. Post-install. SALOME has been installed into the $HOME directory; run salome_appli_5.1.3/runAppli to launch the software. However, before the first launch, remember to create a directory USERS under the salome_appli_5.1.3 to avoid an error.

:/$ mkdir salome_appli_5.1.3/USERS
:/$ salome_appli_5.1.3/runAppli &

Up to now, launch SALOME and try to enable the MESH module, an error, shown below, is seen. This is because libg2c and libgfortran are still missing in the system.


To add libgfortran, sequentially execute (note that for Ubuntu 11.04, the libgfortran is in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu instead of /usr/lib)

:/$ sudo apt-get install gfortran
:/$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libgfortran.so.3 /usr/lib/libgfortran.so.1
:/$ sudo ldconfig
:/$ sudo updatedb

To add libg2c, download the packages libg2c0 and gcc-3.4-base (the latter actually provides a dependency for the former one) which suit the system, i386 or amd64, and then install both by dpkg command. For instance, on my Ubuntu 64 bit, execute

:/$ sudo dpkg -i gcc-3.4-base_3.4.6-8ubuntu2_amd64.deb libg2c0_3.4.6-8ubuntu2_amd64.deb

Finally SALOME is supposed to work well.