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    Building, Installing, and Running OPAL on Linux (Ubuntu 22.04)

    Note: this page supersedes the page on Fedora.

    This is being installed on an Ubuntu 22.04 OS running on a Parallels virtual machine on an M1 MacBook Pro.  That fact will make some things slightly different than other instances of Ubuntu.

    Background

    The OPAL project homepage, including the link to subscribe to the forum mailing list is found here.

    Prerequisites

    I kind of lost track of everything I had to install.  At the very least, you need:

    • cmake
    • autotools-dev
    • openmpi-dev
    • libhdf5-dev
    • libboost-all-dev
    • ippl (this one will NOT show up as missing with cmake, but it will cause problems)

    The other missing stuff will come up when you do the cmake step.

    Building and installing software

    You’ll need to download, build and install the the H5Hut and OPAL code.  I’ll assume everything is under the directory SRC_DIR

    H5Hut

    Download the code as follows:

    cd ${SRC_DIR}
    mkdir H5hut
    cd H5hut
    git clone https://gitlab.psi.ch/OPAL/src.git
    cd src
    ./autogen.sh

    If autogen finds and missing software, install the missing packages until it succeeds, then do

    ./configure –with-hdf5=/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/hdf5/serial -enable-fortran -prefix=/usr/local

    where “aarch650-linux-gnu” is the correct architecture for your computer.  Then do

    make
    make install

    OPAL

    Do the following:

    cd ${SRC_DIR}
    mkdir OPAL
    cd OPAL
    git clone https://gitlab.psi.ch/OPAL/src.git
    mkdir build
    cd build
    export CC=mpicc
    export CXX=mpicxx
    cmake ../src

    Install any necessary packages that weren’t found and try cmake again.  Once it succeeds, type

    make

    In my case, it failed to find “mpi.h”, so I re-ran cmake with

    cmake -DCMAKE_CXX_STANDARD_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES=/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/openmpi/include

    where again “aarch64-linux-guy” should be replaced with the correct achitecture for your machine.  After which I did

    make
    make install

    The make command took a while and generated a few errors, but it compiled

    Running Examples

    Before running the examples, I had to install gnuplot with

    sudo apt-get install gnuplot-x11

    Cyclotron Examples

    I tried all the cyclotron examples found here:

    The all produced the exact same output as on the page.

    (last updated 12-APR-2024 by Eric Prebys)