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

   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.

## NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit

If you have a compatible GPU and wish to compile with nvcc code, you must first install the CUDA Toolkit. The linux installation page is 

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     https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit-70

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Download the applicable file. Your Linux distribution may or may not be natively supported for version 7.0. You may alternatively use version 7.5 if supported or an older version if necessary. As an example, we will include the steps known to work for Fedora 22. On Fedora 22, download the Fedora 21 Local RPM package. 

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     cd <location of download>

     sudo rpm -i cuda-repo-fedora21-7-0-local-7.0-28.x86_64.rpm   #<or whatever file you downloaded> 

     sudo dnf install cuda

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Different Linux distributions will have different package handlers (here we use dnf, ubuntu has apt-get, fedora < 22 uses yum). You should now have the directory /usr/local/cuda-7.0. Add /usr/local/cuda-7.0/bin to your path. To ensure you have gotten the necessary components, type:

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     which nvcc

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The output should be /usr/local/cuda-7.0/bin/nvcc. This will allow bilder to build GPU c++ code.