#1 2023-09-14 23:58:19

Roguish

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Registered: 2023-09-14

Posts: 2

Simplest installation, please.....

I've been fighting with installing Salome-Meca for a few days now.
Tried Win10 WSL,  no luck at all.
Tried Linux Mate, no luck either.
Tried Linux Debian 12, no luck, both with and without Singularity.

Please help.
Please.

Win 10 ???
Win 11 ???
Linux ????    Distro???    version ???

real machine, or VM ???

thanks.

Last edited by Roguish (2023-09-15 00:00:48)

laurent

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Registered: 2007-11-22

Posts: 234

Re: Simplest installation, please.....

Hi

I also encountered problems with Ubuntu and ended up...going to a Win10 machine and used Salome-Meca for Windows version 2021 (Google it. should have an adress like code-aster-windows.com/download)
Not the best but working and fitting my current need.
I used to be able to easily install Aster or Salome in the past, but after a few years hiatus, couldn't easily, hence...this solution.

Hope that helps.

sb1966

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From: INDIA

Registered: 2015-03-16

Posts: 260

Re: Simplest installation, please.....

Hi,

I used to be able to easily install Aster or Salome in the past, but after a few years hiatus, couldn't easily, hence...this solution.

Welcome back to Salome-Meca/Code-aster community.

Regarding installing latest version of Salome-Meca (singularity container) in Ubuntu (20.04, 22.04 etc):

The major steps would be as follows:

1. Install the prerequisites as described in the Salome-Meca/Code-aster website (https:_//code-aster.org/V2/spip.php?article273. Please remove the underscore, not allowed to post url here).

2. Install the singularity container. In Ubuntu 22.04, there was some "loop-device error", this can be fixed as per post id 26901 in this forum.

2.1 For Ubuntu 22.04, singularity community edition version 3.11.4 is  is already available as a .deb file. Installing this would automatically fix the loop-device error.
2.2 I would like to emphasize, not to install singularity via apt from Ubuntu repository. This will install a very old version of singularity which is incompatible for the Salome-Meca container .

3. If Salome-Meca 2021 version is the choice, then there is an unofficial singularity image along with Code-aster MPI (including PETSC) here: https://_cloud.sylabs.io/library/emefff/collection/code-aster-mpi-in-singularity-of-sm2021

4. Kudos to the developers for porting SM/CA to Windows. It gives an easier way to start with CA/SM for the beginners, particularly the students who are more at ease with Windows.

Hope this helps.

Regards

Sukumar

Roguish

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Registered: 2023-09-14

Posts: 2

Re: Simplest installation, please.....

Thank you for the replies.
I did find the ready-to-install  Windows version.
Installed it and am now on the very steep learning curve.

Regards.