{"id":324,"date":"2009-04-06T09:08:29","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T07:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/142.93.241.207\/?p=324"},"modified":"2009-04-06T09:11:26","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T07:11:26","slug":"installing-salome-meca-2009-on-opensuse-111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albertopassalacqua.com\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"Installing Salome-Meca 2009 on OpenSUSE 11.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salome-platform.org\/home\/presentation\/overview\/\" target=\"_blank\">Salome<sup>\u00ae<\/sup><\/a> is a very powerful open source\u00a0 integrated platform for numerical simulations, including an advanced computational code, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.code-aster.org\/V2\/spip.php?rubrique1\" target=\"_blank\">Code Aster<\/a><sup>\u00ae<\/sup>. My interest in Salome is due to its geometry generation capabilities, because it integrates a versatile CAD and a mesher, with automatic generation of hexahedral and tetrahedral meshes. The geometry generation is very useful also to create .stl files to use with tools like OpenFOAM<sup>\u00ae<\/sup><sub> <\/sub>snappyHexMesh automatic mesh generator.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Installing Salome from sources might be challenging, and packaging it for a specific distribution represents a lot of work. However, an alternative and easier way to install Salome on a Linux system is represented by the self-contained package <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caelinux.com\/CMS\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=46&amp;Itemid=40\" target=\"_blank\">Salome-Meca<\/a>, which can be downloaded and promptly installed following these simple instructions, written for a local, per-user installation:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Download the Salome-Meca package from this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caelinux.com\/CMS\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=46&amp;Itemid=40\">webpage<\/a>. Before proceeding with the download, you might want to check if newer versions of the package are available <a href=\"http:\/\/caelinux.com\/CMS\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=category&amp;sectionid=3&amp;id=69&amp;Itemid=40\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Extract the content of the package using the command: <em>tar xzf SALOME-MECA-2009.1-GPL.tgz<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Move the directory <em>SALOME-MECA-2009.1-GPL<\/em> generated during the extraction process in your <em>~\/bin<\/em> directory.<\/li>\n<li>Open your ~\/.bashrc file using a text editor.<\/li>\n<li>Add the following lines, replacing <em>&lt;your_user_name&gt;<\/em> with your actual Linux username:\n<ul>\n<li><em>PATH=\/home\/&lt;your_user_name&gt;\/bin\/SALOME-MECA-2009.1-GPL:$PATH<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>export PATH<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At this point, simply open a terminal, and type runSalomeMeca. Remember that to close Salome, you have to exit its graphical user interphace, and then press Ctrl-D to close the python interpreter which is automatically launched when Salome is executed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Enjoy! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salome\u00ae is a very powerful open source\u00a0 integrated platform for numerical simulations, including an advanced computational code, called Code Aster\u00ae. My interest in Salome is due to its geometry generation capabilities, because it integrates a versatile CAD and a mesher, with automatic generation of hexahedral and tetrahedral meshes. The geometry generation is very useful also to create .stl files to use with tools like OpenFOAM\u00ae snappyHexMesh automatic mesh generator. Installing Salome from sources might be challenging, and packaging it for a specific distribution represents a lot of work. However, an alternative and easier way to install Salome on a Linux system is represented by the self-contained package Salome-Meca, which can be downloaded and promptly installed following these simple instructions, written for a local, per-user installation: Download the Salome-Meca package from this webpage. Before proceeding with the download, you might want to check if newer versions of the package are available here. Extract the content of the package using the command: tar xzf SALOME-MECA-2009.1-GPL.tgz Move the directory SALOME-MECA-2009.1-GPL generated during the extraction process in your ~\/bin directory. Open your ~\/.bashrc file using a text editor. Add the following lines, replacing &lt;your_user_name&gt; with your actual Linux username: PATH=\/home\/&lt;your_user_name&gt;\/bin\/SALOME-MECA-2009.1-GPL:$PATH export PATH At this point, simply open a terminal, and type runSalomeMeca. Remember that to close Salome, you have to exit its graphical user interphace, and then press Ctrl-D to close the python interpreter which is automatically launched when Salome is executed. Enjoy! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[81,79,80],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cfd","category-opensuse","tag-installation","tag-salome","tag-salome-meca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertopassalacqua.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertopassalacqua.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertopassalacqua.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertopassalacqua.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertopassalacqua.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertopassalacqua.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertopassalacqua.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albertopassalacqua.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertopassalacqua.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albertopassalacqua.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}