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# 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 $i
done
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You may also want to install some of the fonts, avantgar bookman charter cmextra courier euro-ce eurosym marvosym mathpazo ncntrsbk pxfonts rsfs symbol times txfonts utopia wasy zapfchan zapfding.
## Fedora
The following packages are needed for Fedora
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bison
glib2-devel
gstreamer-devel
gstreamer-plugins-base-devel
libxml2-devel
openssl-devel
zlib-devel
patch
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If you cannot install in the system area, bilder/extras/gstreamer.sh may
be modified to do what you need.
## Ubuntu
The following packages are needed for Ubuntu
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ace-netsvcs
bison
flex
gfortran
graphviz
graphviz-dev
heirloom-mailx
libblas-dev
libfreetype6-dev
libgl1-mesa-dev
libglu1-mesa-dev
liblapack-dev
libntlm0
libpng12-dev
libxext-dev
libxrender-dev
libxtst-dev
libzzip-dev
mailutils
python2.6
python2.6-dev
vim
zlib-dev
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The use of the following commands are helpful. To search for an available package dealing with a keyword, use:
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$ 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.