Installation intructions | Suggestions

[Ricky-Tigg]

kernel v.: 6.0 | distribution: Fedora | baram v.: 22.0.4

Hello. The installation intructions are solely documented outside this repository, and that without informing of its existence via a dedicated link to that site. Therefore the presence here within section About of a link accordingly to that page would be appropriate; now by default filled as No description, website, or topics provided.

As per those instructions covering Unix/Linux, i was able to run the application successfully, on X.org, with perfect window management, on Wayland server, which is served by Mutter in my user session, with nearly perfect window management. That is traditional.

Observations in respect to installation instructions:

• CentOS 8.2 or newer as supported platforms. | Nowadays the counterparts of the traditional releases of CentOS are Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux. Development of traditional releases of CentOS was dully ceased by action of IBM via its company Red Hat. | Suggestion: Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux in version 9.0 (for example) or newer.
• python3.9 -m venv venv for the set-up of a virtual environment for Python |It appears that version 3.9 and newer are supported as i was able to run python3.11 -m venv venv successfully. | Suggestion: Python 3.9 or newer is required to replace Python 3.9.x is required.
• uncompress solver executables | It appears to be a partial instruction. Observing it would lead to insert a folder named solvers_linux_[version_number] into the suggested destination, which would result in a non-found resource when attempting to compile the daemon. | Suggestion: Once the archive is uncompressed locate the folder solversand place it into the top (...).

[jiban]

Dear Ricky, Thank you for the careful and detailed description. I've updated About section as you kindly guided.

And for the installation instructions,

• Though I have no experience in Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux, BARAM may work on them because the only critical limitation comes from QT6 that requires GLIBC(>=2.28).

• Actually it was Python 3.9 or newer but changed to Python 3.9.x specifically because vtk 9.1.0 does not support python 3.10 and above. This can be fixed if requirements.txt is modified. You might have done it already. I will check if I can update it to 9.2.2 for more wider range of python version.

• Good point! I will refine the description.

Thank you very much again for your kind suggestions.

[Ricky-Tigg]

Happy to contribute, somehow poorly.

• I could test on Rocky 9.1; it has led to a new report.
• It appears that requirements.txt may not require any modification since without any, python3.11 -m venv venv run successfully.
• I was to suggest tree -dL 1 to illustrate the location of solvers. Late i am, as you did it fine.

Suggestion : in order to obtain the compressed file containing the solver executables, the instruction could deserve a command involving either curl or wget.

[jiban]

Yes. I added the commands for Linux users just now. https://nextfoam.github.io/baram-pages/docs/installation/#linux

[Ricky-Tigg]

It can hardly be better documented.

[jaxiballi]

compilation terminated. error: command '/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit code 1 [end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip. ERROR: Failed building wheel for tables Failed to build tables ERROR: Could not build wheels for tables, which is required to install pyproject.toml-based projects please help unable to install baram on ubuntu 24 lts

[jiban]

Hi, @jaxiballi. Which python version are you working with? Please note that BARAM is working on python 3.9.x.