How to install OpenTURNS on Ubuntu/Kubuntu

This guide explains Ubuntu/Kubuntu Feisty installation of OpenTURNS.

Prepare your system

Some OpenTURNS dependencies need you to activate 'universe' repository. To do that, edit your /etc/apt/sources.list and uncomment the lines :

Ubuntu/Kubuntu Feisty (7.04)

Note : In Ubuntu/Kubuntu Feisty universe repositories are activated by default, just make sure you have already access to them.

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty universe
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty universe

Configure

• Install building tools

  aptitude install build-essential
  

• Install fortan compiler

  aptitude install g77
  

• Install mathematical tools (R, LAPACK)

  aptitude install r-base lapack3-dev
  

• Install XercesC, BOOST, Qt3

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

• 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/python2.5/site-packages/openturns.pth
  

Try it !

You can check if OpenTURNS's TUI is working :

# python
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, May  2 2007, 16:27:44)
[GCC 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from openturns import *
>>>