Bilder

# Preparing a Linux machine for Bilder

## Bilder on Linux

At least one package (Babel) needs Oracle's java, so we recommend installing it. It is often useful to get a newer gcc that has mmintrinsics.

## GCC

Below are the instructions for building gcc-4.9.3.

### Make sure 32bit glibc-devel is installed

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yum -y install glibc-devel.i686

zypper install glibc-devel-32bit  (SLES 11 SP3)

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### Get the source packages

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export GCCVER=4.9.3

wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-${GCCVER}/gcc-${GCCVER}.tar.bz2

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### Build

Define CONTRIB_DIR to be your tarball installation directory, e.g.,

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export CONTRIB_DIR=/contrib

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Usually CONTRIB_DIR=/contrib, but if one does not have root access, one has to put this in a user area. If one does have root access, one should execute the following commands:

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mkdir /internal /contrib /volatile

chmod 775 /internal /contrib /volatile

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Unpack gcc, go into the gcc source directory, and build according to the instructions below.

**gcc:**

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tar xjf gcc-${GCCVER}.tar.bz2 && cd gcc-${GCCVER}

./contrib/download_prerequisites

mkdir build && cd build

../configure --prefix=$CONTRIB_DIR/gcc-${GCCVER} \

  --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran --with-pic

env LD_RUN_PATH=$CONTRIB_DIR/gcc-${GCCVER}/lib64 make -j 4

make install

# Alias as desired.

mkdir -p $CONTRIB_DIR/bin && cd $CONTRIB_DIR/bin

ln -s $CONTRIB_DIR/gcc-${GCCVER}/bin/{c,g}* .

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### Fix permissions

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chmod -R g+rwX $CONTRIB_DIR/gcc-${GCCVER}

chmod -R o+rX $CONTRIB_DIR/gcc-${GCCVER}

find $CONTRIB_DIR/gcc-${GCCVER} -type d -exec chmod g+rs '{}' \;

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## Java

Install Oracle's Java.

Once it is installed, you will need to modify your path to include /usr/java/default/bin before /usr/bin or use the alternatives package:

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for i in java jar javac; do

  alternatives --install /usr/bin/$i j$i /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_16/bin/$i 3

done

alternatives --config java # Pick 3

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On SLES , Install using the tar package from Oracle, then change into the installation directory

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for i in java jar javac; do

  /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/$i $i <installation directory>/bin/$i 3

done

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where <installation directory\> is the absolute path to where Java was just installed  

## Version control systems

Make sure git, mercurial, and subversion are all installed.

## LaTeX

Install the texlive-latex package. You may need to install other packages over time. For gui usage, see texworks: http://www.tug.org/texworks

If you cannot install in the system area, you can download

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wget http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz

tar xzf install-tl-unx.tar.gz

cd install-tl-20150411 (date might be different)

./install-tl -no-gui

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This is now interactive, so set

* Scheme to basic

* TEXDIR = $CONTRIB_DIR/texlive

* Letter size

and then

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    for i in cmap fancybox fancyvrb epstopdf framed mdwtools multirow parskip \

pdftex revtex4 titlesec threeparttable url wrapfig courier ec helvetic palatino; do

     tlmgr install $i

    done

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You may also want to install some of the fonts, avantgar bookman charter cmextra courier euro-ce eurosym marvosym mathpazo ncntrsbk pxfonts rsfs symbol times txfonts utopia wasy zapfchan zapfding.

## Fedora

The following packages are needed for Fedora

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   bison

   glib2-devel

   gstreamer-devel

   gstreamer-plugins-base-devel

   libxml2-devel

   zlib-devel

   patch

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If you cannot install in the system area, bilder/extras/gstreamer.sh may

be modified to do what you need.

## Ubuntu

The following packages are needed for Ubuntu

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   ace-netsvcs

   bison

   flex

   gfortran

   graphviz

   graphviz-dev

   heirloom-mailx

   libblas-dev

   libfreetype6-dev

   libgl1-mesa-dev

   libglu1-mesa-dev

   liblapack-dev

   libntlm0

   libpng12-dev

   libxext-dev

   libxrender-dev

   libxtst-dev

   libzzip-dev

   mailutils

   python2.6

   python2.6-dev

   vim

   zlib-dev

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The use of the following commands are helpful. To search for an available package dealing with a keyword, use:

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    $ sudo apt-cache search keyword

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To install a particular package, use:

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    $ sudo apt-get install libblah-dev

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Note: that development packages names typically end with "dev" not "devel" as in other flavors of linux.

## Suse Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)

The following packages are needed on SLES

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   bison

   blas-devel

   blas-devel-static

   libblas3

   flex

   freetype2-devel

   gcc

   gcc-32bit

   gcc-fortran

   git

   glibc-devel

   glibc-devel-32bit

   graphviz

   graphviz-devel

   gstreamer-0_10-devel

   gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base-devel

   lapack-devel

   lapack-devel-static

   liblapack3

   libapr-util1 (needed to build subversion)

   libapr1      (needed to build subversion)

   libneon27    (needed to build subversion)

   libpng-devel

   libssh-devel

   libxml2-devel

   mailx

   mercurial

   Mesa-devel

   python-devel

   xorg-x11-devel

   xorg-x11-libXext-devel

   xorg-x11-libXrender-devel

   xorg-x11-libs

   zlib-devel

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To get blas-devel, blas-devel-static and lapack-devel, lapack-devel-static on SLES 11 SP3 , add the Science repository

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   zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/science/SLE_11_SP3/science.repo

   zypper refresh

   zypper install blas-devel blas-devel-static lapack-devel lapack-devel-static

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## Vendor-specific version of graphics driver

If you are preparing a Linux machine for the VisIt Visualization package, the vendor-specific graphics driver for your graphics card should be installed.

By default, a generic graphics driver is installed.  On Fedora, the generic driver is "nouveau".

To determine if the nouveau driver is installed on your system, enter the command

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     lsmod | grep nouv

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You will need to download and install the appropriate driver from your graphics card vendor.  This generally uninstalls the nouveau drivers.