Difference between revisions of "VisIt"
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These are notes from Rupert Gladstone, modified by Gethin Williams. | These are notes from Rupert Gladstone, modified by Gethin Williams. | ||
| − | + | 1. Create the directory in which you wish to install VisIt, and cd to this | |
directory. For example, on dartagnan, this dir is '''/opt/visit'''. | directory. For example, on dartagnan, this dir is '''/opt/visit'''. | ||
| − | + | 2. Download the VisIt 1.11.1 sources, unpack abd cd to the created dir: | |
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wget https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/1.11.1/visit1.11.1.tar.gz | wget https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/1.11.1/visit1.11.1.tar.gz | ||
tar -xzf visit1.11.1.tar.gz | tar -xzf visit1.11.1.tar.gz | ||
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</pre> | </pre> | ||
| − | + | 3. Download the [https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/1.11.1/build_visit build script] and save as '''build_visit'''. | |
| − | + | 4. 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. | |
| − | + | 5. (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 | (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). | force this with [[VisIt:compile_hack | this hack]] (uses Python as an example). | ||
| − | + | 6. Run the [https://wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit/1.10.0/build_visit build VisIt] script. | |
Revision as of 15:28, 12 January 2009
Installing VisIt 1.11.1
These are notes from Rupert Gladstone, modified by Gethin Williams.
1. Create the directory in which you wish to install VisIt, and cd to this directory. For example, on dartagnan, this dir is /opt/visit.
2. 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 cd visit1.11.1
3. Download the build script and save as build_visit.
4. 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 downloads page.
5. (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 this hack (uses Python as an example).
6. Run the build VisIt script.
Further notes:
I also had to download Imaging-1.1.6.tar.gz from 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 when used remotely via ssh/exceed. This is because exceed does not support openGL. See also this Linux forum comment and the exceed website for more info. It would appear that exceed3d could be purchased to get round this problem.