Revision as of 14:29, 5 January 2018

GridPACK Binary Package Installation on Ubuntu Linux 16.04 LTS

GridPACK is relatively easy to install on an Ubuntu Linux system. Working packages for GridPACK prerequisites are available from standard repositories. Currently, the description below work only with Ubuntu 16.04 which is the current long term support (LTS) release. If you are installing Ubuntu on a system or virtual machine, download the 16.04 LTS Desktop distribution and follow the installation instructions.

If you do not need to modify the GridPACK source, e.g. just use the GridPACK example applications or build your own application, you can install the binary package from the GridPACK PPA. Add the PPA to your system, and install GridPACK with

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:wperkins/gridpack-ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gridpack-dev

To use GridPACK, you will also need to install CMake:

sudo apt-get install cmake

Make sure your installation works by building and running one of the several example applications, e.g. power flow:

mkdir tmpbuild
cd tmpbuild
cmake /usr/share/gridpack/example/powerflow
make
mpiexec -np 4 ./powerflow.x

Also, you can run the installed powerflow application on this same input:

mpiexec -np 4 /usr/bin/pf.x

GridPACK can be removed with

sudo apt-get purge gridpack-dev
sudo apt autoremove