Author’s Note 1: It is my standard policy to put too much info into guides so that those who are searching for specific problems they come across will find the offending text in their searches. With luck, your “build error” search sent you here. Author’s Note 2: It’s not as bad as it looks (I’ve […]

Author’s Note 1: It is my standard policy to put too much info into guides so that those who are searching for specific problems they come across will find the offending text in their searches. With luck, your “build error” search sent you here. Author’s Note 2: It’s not as bad as it looks (I’ve […]

I’ll qualify this post by saying that (1) I have given up on Ubuntu 11.x and 12.x because they are consistently unstable on my hardware (so, if you have issues running this installation on those versions, I may not be of much help (although I suspect things should work)), (2) I am starting this install […]

This post is a brief update to a much longer and more involved discussion of Amber 11 and AmberTools installation in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) (as the changes are minor and the parallelization setup remains largely the same). You can find this more involved discussion at www.somewhereville.com/?p=1422. Long/Short – the installation under Ubuntu 12.04 […]

It has been a banner week for Ubuntu installations. The installation of Abinit 5.6.5 with OpenMPI 1.3.1 (previously reported at www.somewhereville.com/?p=384) wasn’t bad, but several games had to be played (at the time) to make everything compile and run correctly. I’m pleased to report that Abinit 6.8.1 and OpenMPI 1.4.1 seem to play better together, […]