[Ifeffit] pgplot and ifeffit installation on current linux systems

[Bruce Ravel]

Hi Anselm,

Things change over time and there are a lot of slightly different linux 
distributions out there.

If you get to a point where you can build correctly on Arch and would 
like to contribute an how to or some modifications to build scripts, 
that would be great.  I would be more than happy to see that your 
contributions get used or linked to as appropriate.

B


On 08/26/2016 07:33 AM, Loges, Anselm G wrote:
> Dear all,
>
>
> I hope this is the right platform for my question. If not, sorry to
> bother anyone. The question:
>
> Has anyone successfully installed pgplot and ifeffit on a recent Arch
> Linux system and could provide a quick how-to guide (also for the
> Demeter website maybe)? Although I have not yet tested it, my problem
> may also be relevant for current Debian/Ubuntu systems. Here's the
> situation:
>
>
> I am trying to install ifeffit on a current Arch Linux machine and
> therefore need to install pgplot first. The PGPLOT_install script on the
> respective GitHub page (as linked by a tutorial on the Demeter page, see
> links below) does not work because it relies on several outdated paths
> to dependencies. The one culprit I was able to isolate and fix was the
> path to the X11 libraries, which the script looks for here:
>
> /usr/X11    or /usr/X11R6
>
> but in current Arch Linux (at least in mine, which is Manjaro to be
> precise, link below) is here:
>
> /usr/share/X11
>
> This alone does not fix all problems, there are several dependencies
> missing in the X11 directory and I could not find out what the actual
> relevant package names are in Arch (Debian/Ubuntu names cannot be
> found). Also the config files of pgplot seem to have a bunch of similar
> problems that (at least partially) seem to stem from use of an old
> fortran-to-c translator (f2c) instead of the gcc fortran frontend
> and missing dependencies for that.
>
>
> If I am not mistaken, the latest Ubuntu LTS (16.04.) also has the
> /usr/share/X11 path, so the script should not work there either.
>
>
> I'd be happy to provide an updated installation script if I ever get it
> running but I thought I'd ask if someone has done that already or has
> solved the related problems so as not to invent the wheel anew.
>
>
> Links:
>
> <https://bruceravel.github.io/demeter/documents/SinglePage/installation.html>https://bruceravel.github.io/demeter/documents/SinglePage/installation.html
>
> https://github.com/newville/ifeffit
>
> <https://manjaro.github.io/>https://manjaro.github.io/
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Anselm
>
>
>
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