How to install OpenTURNS' development version on Ubuntu

This guide explains Ubuntu installation of development version of OpenTURNS.

Retrieve sources

• Install subversion

  sudo apt-get install subversion
  

• Download

  svn checkout https://svn.openturns.org/openturns/tags/openturns-0.13.2 openturns-0.13.2
  cd openturns-0.13.2
  

Configure

• Install building tools

  sudo apt-get install build-essential automake libtool g77 flex bison swig libssl-dev
  

• Install LibXML

  sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev
  

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

  sudo apt-get install python-dev python-qt4-dev
  

• Install mathematical tools (R, LAPACK)

  sudo apt-get install r-base lapack3-dev
  

• Install rotRPackage

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

• Launch bootstraping

  ./bootstrap
  

• Make a build directory

  mkdir build
  cd build
  

• Launch configuration script

  ../configure --with-swig --prefix=$PWD/install
  

Compilation and installation

• Launch compilation

  make -j5
  

• Launch installation

  make install
  

Try it !

You can check if OpenTURNS's TUI is working :

# PYTHONPATH=$PWD/install/lib/python2.6/site-packages python
Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr 16 2010, 13:57:41) 
[GCC 4.4.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from openturns import *
Welcome to OpenTURNS version 0.13.2-based-devel
>>>