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`pip` rather than `snap` as recommended cmake installation tool #13

Closed veriditin closed 3 months ago

veriditin commented 5 months ago

Section 1.3.1 of the build guide mentions that in order to install cmake, one should use snap:

To install cmake (in a version 3.26 or higher) use `snap` (and not `apt`) as follows.

$ sudo snap install cmake --classic

Probably because, as of this writing, the version that is available on apt is <3.26, whereas >=3.26 is required to build this project.

However, snap is a ubuntu-specific tool which is not available on all distributions, nor even on the official ubuntu docker image.

My suggestion would be to use pip to install cmake (as well as conan) and update the guide accordingly.

bbtams commented 5 months ago

Thank you. Yes, in fact it is important that CMake version >= 3.26 is used and it is not important to install it via snap. The documentation states that the procedure has been tested with Ubuntu (22.04) and the installation via snap is one possible (but not the only one) way to go. Note, we will test OFIQ with further platforms and extend the documentation before publishing the final release.