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GethinWilliams: /* Installing [https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/home.html VisIt] 1.11.1 */

2009-01-12T17:24:36Z

Installing [https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/home.html VisIt] 1.11.1

GethinWilliams at 17:09, 12 January 2009

2009-01-12T17:09:25Z

GethinWilliams: /* Installing [https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/home.html VisIt] 1.11.1 */

2009-01-12T16:19:46Z

Installing [https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/home.html VisIt] 1.11.1

GethinWilliams: /* Installing [https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/home.html VisIt] 1.11.1 */

2009-01-12T16:01:57Z

Installing [https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/home.html VisIt] 1.11.1

GethinWilliams: /* Installing [https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/home.html VisIt] 1.11.1 */

2009-01-12T15:58:17Z

Installing [https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/home.html VisIt] 1.11.1

GethinWilliams: /* Installing [https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/home.html VisIt] 1.11.1 */

2009-01-12T15:54:50Z

Installing [https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/home.html VisIt] 1.11.1

GethinWilliams: /* Installing [https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/home.html VisIt] 1.11.1 */

2009-01-12T15:32:00Z

Installing [https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/home.html VisIt] 1.11.1

GethinWilliams: /* Installing [https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/home.html VisIt] 1.11.1 */

2009-01-12T15:28:03Z

Installing [https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/home.html VisIt] 1.11.1

GethinWilliams: /* Installing [https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/home.html VisIt] 1.11.1 */

2009-01-12T15:27:26Z

Installing [https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/home.html VisIt] 1.11.1

GethinWilliams: /* Installing [https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/home.html VisIt] 1.11.1 */

2009-01-12T15:27:03Z

Installing [https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/home.html VisIt] 1.11.1

← Older revision		Revision as of 17:24, 12 January 2009
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	These are notes from Rupert Gladstone, modified by Gethin Williams.		These are notes from Rupert Gladstone, modified by Gethin Williams.
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		+	Note that (like ChomboVis) VisIt is not at all friendly over a remote connection (such as SSH with Exceed, for example). These notes are for installing VisIt directly on your Linux machine.

	Additional build notes are available at https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/1.11.1/BUILD_NOTES. However, these describe a manual build of all the dependencies, which will be far more tedius and error-prone than using the build script, described below.		Additional build notes are available at https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/1.11.1/BUILD_NOTES. However, these describe a manual build of all the dependencies, which will be far more tedius and error-prone than using the build script, described below.

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 These are notes from Rupert Gladstone, modified by Gethin Williams.
-https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/1.11.1/BUILD_NOTES
+Additional build notes are available at https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/1.11.1/BUILD_NOTES.  However, these describe a manual build of all the dependencies, which will be far more tedius and error-prone than using the build script, described below.
 . Create the directory in which you wish to install VisIt, and cd to this
 directory.  For example, on dartagnan, this dir is '''/opt/visit'''.
-. Download the VisIt 1.11.1 sources, unpack abd cd to the created dir:
+. Download the VisIt 1.11.1 sources:
 <pre>
 wget https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/1.11.1/visit1.11.1.tar.gz
 </pre>

← Older revision		Revision as of 16:19, 12 January 2009
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	https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/1.11.1/BUILD_NOTES		https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/1.11.1/BUILD_NOTES
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		+	<pre>
		+	export VISITDIR=/opt/visit/visit1.11.1
		+	export VISITARCH=linux_centos5.2_gcc_4.1.2
		+	</pre>

	1. Create the directory in which you wish to install VisIt, and cd to this		1. Create the directory in which you wish to install VisIt, and cd to this

← Older revision		Revision as of 16:01, 12 January 2009
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	These are notes from Rupert Gladstone, modified by Gethin Williams.		These are notes from Rupert Gladstone, modified by Gethin Williams.
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		+	https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/1.11.1/BUILD_NOTES

	1. Create the directory in which you wish to install VisIt, and cd to this		1. Create the directory in which you wish to install VisIt, and cd to this

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 . Download the [https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/1.11.1/build_visit build script] and save as '''build_visit'''.
-. There is a list of required 3rd party software in the '''Setup''' section of '''build_visit'''.  Download all the 'must have' tarballs (except I am assuming cmake is already installed on your system) and also HDF5, NetCDF, szip.  These can be downloaded from the bottom of the [https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/source.html downloads] page:
+. There is a list of required 3rd party software in the '''Setup''' section of '''build_visit'''.  Download all the 'must have' tarballs and also HDF5, NetCDF, szip.  These can be downloaded from the bottom of the [https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/source.html downloads] page:
 <pre>
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 wget https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/3rd_party/Python-2.5.tgz
 wget https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/3rd_party/vtk-5.0.0c.tar.gz
 wget https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/3rd_party/silo-4.6.2.tar.gz
 wget https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/3rd_party/hdf5-1.8.1.tar.gz

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 . Download the [https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/1.11.1/build_visit build script] and save as '''build_visit'''.
-. There is a list of required 3rd party software in the '''Setup''' section of '''build_visit'''.  Download all the 'must have' tarballs and also HDF5, NetCDF, szip.  These can be downloaded from the bottom of the [https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/source.html downloads] page:
+. There is a list of required 3rd party software in the '''Setup''' section of '''build_visit'''.  Download all the 'must have' tarballs (except I am assuming cmake is already installed on your system) and also HDF5, NetCDF, szip.  These can be downloaded from the bottom of the [https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/source.html downloads] page:
 <pre>
 wget https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/3rd_party/qt-x11-free-3.3.8.tar.gz
 </pre>
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 I also had to download Imaging-1.1.6.tar.gz from
-[http://effbot.org/downloads/ here], prompted by a message in the build log.
+[http://effbot.org/downloads/ here], prompted by a message in the build log:
 Note that this should give a valid install of VisIt, but VisIt will still not function properly

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 These are notes from Rupert Gladstone, modified by Gethin Williams.
-# Create the directory in which you wish to install VisIt, and cd to this
+. Create the directory in which you wish to install VisIt, and cd to this
 directory.  For example, on dartagnan, this dir is '''/opt/visit'''.
-# Download the VisIt 1.11.1 sources, unpack abd cd to the created dir:<pre>
+. Download the VisIt 1.11.1 sources, unpack abd cd to the created dir:
 wget https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/1.11.1/visit1.11.1.tar.gz
 tar -xzf visit1.11.1.tar.gz
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 </pre>
-# Download the [https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/1.11.1/build_visit build script] and save as '''build_visit'''.
+. Download the [https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/1.11.1/build_visit build script] and save as '''build_visit'''.
-# There is a list of required 3rd party software in the '''Setup''' section of '''build_visit'''.  Download all the 'must have' tarballs and also HDF5, NetCDF, szip.  These can be downloaded from the bottom of the [https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/source.html downloads] page.
+. There is a list of required 3rd party software in the '''Setup''' section of '''build_visit'''.  Download all the 'must have' tarballs and also HDF5, NetCDF, szip.  These can be downloaded from the bottom of the [https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/source.html downloads] page.
-# (optional) If you want to use an existing installation of the 3rd party software
+. (optional) If you want to use an existing installation of the 3rd party software
 (note that that in some cases VisIt requires older versions) you can
 force this with [[VisIt:compile_hack | this hack]] (uses Python as an example).
-# Run the [https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/1.10.0/build_visit build VisIt] script.
+. Run the [https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/1.10.0/build_visit build VisIt] script.