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== Get the software == | == Get the software == |
Revision as of 19:25, 27 October 2008
Contents
Get the software
Download it: Find it from the CAELinux web site, or use Google/Yahoo/whatever to find it. If you're reading this page you probably know where to find it...
At the time of writing this, the tarball was to be found here: Salome-Meca-2008.1-GPL
Install
All of the following commands are typed, i.e., use a terminal.
"cd" to the directory where you saved the tarball and unpack it:
tar -xvvf SALOME-MECA-2008.1-GPL.tgz
Move it to the /opt directory:
sudo mv SALOME-MECA-2008.1-GPL /opt/
Run the post install script:
cd /opt/SALOME-MECA-2008.1-GPL/postinstall/ sudo ./postinstall.py
Change the file/dir ownership (not crucial):
sudo chown -R root:root /opt/SALOME-MECA-2008.1
Create symbolic links
This will enable you to run Salome-Meca from any location.
cd /usr/local/bin sudo ln -s /opt/SALOME-MECA-2008.1-GPL/runSalomeMeca runSalomeMeca sudo ln -s /opt/SALOME-MECA-2008.1-GPL/killSalome killSalome cd
Everything should be OK now.
Run (launch) Salome-Meca
Still in a terminal, type
runSalomeMeca
This will launch Salome-Meca. You can stop/end (kill) the application with
killSalome
Troubleshooting
Should you get the following error if you try to run Salome-Meca
"Failed to narrow the root naming context"
then check your "/etc/hosts" file. It will look something like this:
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost localhost ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
The second "localhost" should be your "hostname", for example:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost your_host_name
If you don't know what your hostname is, type:
hostname
William Hunter