Wind sim suite

Wind Sim Suite installation on specific distributions

This page is an attempt to help the installation of the prerequisites for specific distributions. The package that needs for sure to be installed by hand is MBDyn sim suite. Once done with it, the current notes are for:

• Debian
• Ubuntu
• Gentoo
• Archlinux

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r1

To test your OpenGL installation with the X windows system, the command 'glxgears' is in the 'mesa-utils' package. The packages 'libgtk2.0.0', 'libglade2-0' and 'python-gtk2' should alreay been installed unless you really use no GTK application. The packages that you may not have are:

• libvtk5
• python-vtk
• libgtkglext1
• python-gtkglext1
• python-matplotlib

You should be then ready to start the wind-sim-suite installation.

Ubuntu Feisty

You will probably already have GTK, Libglade and pyGTK. The packages that are harder to guess on Synaptic are:

• libvtk5
• python-vtk
• libgtkglext1
• python-matplotlib

It lacks the Python bindings to GtkGLExt. But you can get it there, download: "python-gtkglext1_1.1.0-2feisty_i386.deb". Then enter in a terminal: # sudo dpkg -i python-gtkglext1_1.1.0-2feisty_i386.deb


You should be then ready to start the wind-sim-suite installation.

Gentoo

Those notes are very experimental. The installation steps could be very different according to users. Anyway emerging the following packages should pull all the dependencies:

• pygtkglext (should bring GTK, pyGTK and GtkGLExt)
• vtk, the only mandatory USE flag is "python" but be sure to have it
• matplotlib, you may need to edit '/etc/portage/package.keywords' to set it as unstable. Be sure to have the "gtk" USE flag (else edit '/etc/portage/package.use').

In case you got into troubles, check that 'libglade' is installed. You should be then ready to start the wind-sim-suite installation.

Archlinux

The packages libglade, gtk and pygtk may already be installed on your system. Additionnally, you need to have the following packages installed :

• python-gtkglext
and its dependencies,
• python-matplotlib

There is no package for VTK, so you will need to compile it by hand. You will need cmake to configure it. The Readme.html included in the top source directory explains the installation. If you are using Python-2.5, you may need to edit the file CMakeLists.txt, find the line defining the PYTHON EXECUTABLE and replace NAMES python2.4 python2.3 ... by NAMES python2.5 python2.4 python2.3 ... so that the build script can find the python executable. Then follow the readme instructions. The only thing you have to be careful is to set "PYTHON ON" during the configuration. You should be then ready to start the wind-sim-suite installation.