(ref: VMware - Official Site)
Go to downloads and select Open Source. Scroll down to Desktop & End-User Computing and select VMware Player.
Download VMware Workstation Player 15.5.6.
After the file is downloaded, restart your computer and open your from downloads:
VMware-player-15.5.6.exe
Proceed with the guidelines given:
- Accept the terms in the Licence Agreement
- Mark the Enchanced Keyboard Driver
- Press install and finish.
Wmware-player installation complete!
(ref: LINUX.org)
From the link, download your preferred linux system. In this case Linux Mint is used.
- VMware - setup
After downloading, open your WMware-player.
- Select the
Create a New Virtual Machineoption - Select
Custom (advanced)type configuration - Select
I will install the operating system later - Select a Guest operating System :
Linuxand VersionUbuntu 64-bit - Name your Virtual machine (Linux Mint) and select it`s location
- Maximize number of processors and storage
- Create a new virtual disk
- Store virtual disk as a single file
- In processors select
Virtualize Intel VT -x/EPT - In
New CD/DVD (SATA)selectUse ISO image fileand open with yourlinuxmint.isodisk - Press
Finish
Your Linux Mint should now be ready, you can test by running it using Power on this virtual machine
- Linux Mint - setup
- Select
Start Linux Mintin the startup window - On the desktop press the
Install Linux Mintdisc - Installation type: `Erase disk and install Linux Mint
After some minutes, a window saying installation has finished should pop up. Press Restart Now
Linux Mint installation complete!
(ref: The OpenFOAM Foundation)
Go to downloads select OpenFOAM v8.
OpenFOAM can be simply installed for the first time using the apt package management tool.
-
Copy and pastethe following in a terminal prompt:sudo sh -c "wget -O - https://dl.openfoam.org/gpg.key | apt-key add -" sudo add-apt-repository http://dl.openfoam.org/ubuntu -
Update the
aptpackage list to account the new download repository location:sudo apt-get update -
Install OpenFOAM:
sudo apt-get -y install openfoam6
OpenFOAM 6 and ParaView 5.6.0 are now installed in the /opt directory.
After the installation, add the following to the end of the file "~/.bashrc":
alias of6="source /opt/openfoam6/etc/bashrc"
OpenFOAM installation complete!
(ref: code-aster.org)
In order to install Code_Aster you need to install certain prerequisites by inserting the following in a terminal prompt:
sudo apt-get install gcc g++ gfortran cmake python3 python3-dev python3-numpy tk tcl bison flex liblapack-dev libblas-dev libopenblas-dev libboost-python-dev libboost-numpy-dev zlib1g-dev nedit geany vim ddd
sudo apt-get install checkinstall openmpi-bin libx11-dev grace gettext libboost-all-dev swig libsuperlu-devYou can check if the prerequisites are installed by using synaptic and search for a specific:
sudo synapticIf the colour is green in the box, the software is installed. If not, you can mark the box and press Apply.
When all the prerequisites are installed you can proceed with the installation of Code_Aster.
- Installation of Code_Aster
From main menu, press DOWNLOAD and select Code_Aster. For non-commercial usage you should select the stable version.
Code_Aster is installed by inserting:
sudo python3 setup.py install --prefix=/opt/aster144
- After the build complete, to make host file for parallel calculation. (Write the description to the mpi_hostfile):
echo "$HOSTNAME cpu=$(cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor | wc -l)" > /opt/aster/etc/codeaster/mpi_hostfile
add the following to the end of the file "~/.bashrc"
After the installation, add the following to the end of the file "~/.bashrc":
alias aster144="source /opt/aster144/etc/bashrc"
Code_Aster installation complete!
(ref: code-aster.org)
- Installation
From main menu, press DOWNLOAD and select Salome-Meca.
- Uncompress the file and launch the install:
tar xvf Salome-Meca-2017.0.2-LGPL-2.tgz && ./Salome-Meca-2017.0.2-LGPL-2.run
Select language English/French and proceed.
To launch Salome-Meca:
cd appli_V2017.0.2
./salome
Salome-Meca installation complete!