How to install OpenTURNS on Debian 4.0 (Etch)

This guide explains Debian Etch installation of OpenTURNS.

Configure

• Install building tools

  aptitude install build-essential
  

• Install XercesC, BOOST, Qt3

  aptitude install libxerces27-dev libboost-dev libqt3-mt-dev
  

• Install mathematical tools (R, LAPACK)

  aptitude install r-base lapack3-dev
  

• Install python's development files (used to build TUI)

  aptitude install python-dev
  

• SWIG 1.3.31 version is required bellow OpenTURNS 0.9.2 but Debian Etch have SWIG in 1.3.29 version. You need to build SWIG from source :

  wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/swig/swig-1.3.31.tar.gz
  tar xzvf swig-1.3.31.tar.gz
  cd swig-1.3.31
  ./configure --prefix=/usr
  make && make install
  cd ..
  

• Download and extract OpenTURNS archive (i.e. openturns-0.9.1)

  wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/openturns/openturns-0.9.1.tar.gz
  tar xzf openturns-0.9.1.tar.gz
  cd openturns-0.9.1
  

• To allow OpenTURNS to communicate with R, you need to install the provided R package named rotRPackage :

  cd utils
  tar xvzf rotRPackage_*.tar.gz
  R CMD INSTALL rotRPackage
  cd ..
  

• Launch configuration script

  ./configure --prefix=/usr
  

Compilation and installation

• Launch compilation

  make
  

• Launch installation

  make install
  

• Help python to find OpenTURNS's module

  echo "openturns" > /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/openturns.pth
  

Try it !

You can check if OpenTURNS's TUI is working :

# python
Python 2.4.4 (#2, Apr  5 2007, 18:43:10)
[GCC 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from openturns import *
>>>