How to install OpenTURNS with a development version

This guide is only for developers or advanced users who want to use a development version.

Download

To use a development version, you must have  Subversion to retrieve a version.

To learn more about the use of version control system (svn) you can refer to the version control system page

If you know what you are doing, you can checkout the development's trunk.

svn checkout https://svn.openturns.org/openturns/trunk openturns-trunk

We ensure that the trunk is quite stable though not fully debugged. So it should compile and pass the checks without efforts. That's all, so don't ask for bug correction on the trunk.
In particular, we do not encourage anyone to pick up a development version and distribute it in any way.

Also, you can pick up a tagged version. (i.e. 0.15) :

svn checkout https://svn.openturns.org/openturns/tags/openturns-0.15

Dependencies

To build your OpenTURNS platform, you need some additional libraries, headers (development files) and tools. Of course, you can use your favorite package-manager to download and install these requirements.

• binutils
• automake (>=1.10)
• autoconf (tested with 2.60, 2.61)
• libtool (tested with 1.5.22 and 2.2)
• gcc (>= 3.3.6 except 4.0.x series, tested with 4.1.2)
• gfortran (>= 3.3.6 except 4.0.x series, tested with 3.4.6)
• python (2.4.x)
• R (>= 2.0)
• libxml2 (>= 2.6.27)
• SWIG (>= 1.3.35)
• lapack
• flex (>= 2.5.33)
• bison

These are the package names on each distribution

package	Debian/Ubuntu	Mandriva	OpenSUSE	Fedora	Red Hat
latex	texlive-latex	texlive-latex	tetex-latex	tex(latex)	tetex-latex
c++	gcc	gcc-c++	gcc-c++	gcc-c++	gcc-c++
fortran	gfortran	gcc-gfortran	gcc-gfortran	gcc-fortran	gcc-gfortran
R	r-base-core	R-base	R-base	R-core	R-core
R (development)	r-base-dev	R-base	R-base	R-devel	R-devel
xml	libxml2	libxml2	libxml2	libxml2	libxml2
xml (development)	libxml2-dev	libxml2-devel	libxml2-devel	libxml2-devel	libxml2-devel
lapack	liblapack3gf	lib(64)lapack3	lapack	lapack	lapack
lapack (development)	liblapack-dev	lapack-devel	lapack	lapack-devel	lapack-devel blas-devel
python	python	python	python-base	python	python
python (development)	python-dev	python-devel	python-devel	python-devel	python-devel
python qt	python-qt4	python-qt4	python-qt4	!PyQt4
rpy2	python-rpy2	python-rpy2		rpy
tbb	libtbb2	tbb	tbb	tbb	tbb
tbb (development)	libtbb-dev	tbb-devel	tbb-devel	tbb-devel	tbb-devel

Generic instructions

Pre installation

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

# R CMD INSTALL utils/rotRPackage_1.4.4.tar.gz

Then you should be able to load it in R.

R --vanilla <<<'library(rotRPackage)'

As you can see with dependencies, OpenTURNS project use autotools and gcc suite to configure and build the sources.

Configure

./bootstrap
mkdir build
cd build
../configure --prefix=$PWD/install --disable-static

Or, faster, using CMake:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$PWD/install

Build & install

make
make check
make install
make installcheck

Try it !

• Set the python path

  export PYTHONPATH=$PWD/install/lib/python2.6/site-packages
  

• Launch python interpreter

  python -c "import openturns as ot; u=ot.Normal(); print u" 
  

Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, Aug 21 2009, 12:23:57)  
[GCC 4.4.1 20090818 (Red Hat 4.4.1-6)] on linux2 
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. 
Welcome to OpenTURNS version 0.15 
class=NumericalPoint name=Unnamed dimension=1 values=[0.608202]