[Ifeffit] struggling to install demeter under ubuntu 16.04

[Juan de la figuera]

Hi to all,

Is there a switch in demeter to select the backend? Or in other words, to
go back to ifeffit, should I delete the larch binaries?

Juan

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On Thu, Dec 1, 2016 at 5:52 PM, Robert Gordon <ragordon at alumni.sfu.ca>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I installed demeter recently under 16.04 lts. In response to Juan's
> issues, I described what I did here:
>
> http://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/pipermail/ifeffit/2016-Nove
> mber/008888.html
>
> One additional deviation was that I had already installed gfortran and
> gunplot (sudo apt install)
> beforehand.
>
> Matt noted in the next message that a larch issue needs addressing when
> importing files
>
> http://millenia.cars.aps.anl.gov/pipermail/ifeffit/2016-Nove
> mber/008889.html
>
> but the ifeffit backend works.
>
> I haven't tried everything, but reading and processing a file in Athena
> works fine.
>
> -R.
>
>
> On 12/1/2016 6:21 AM, Bruce Ravel wrote:
>
>> On 12/01/2016 09:12 AM, mfehse wrote:
>>
>>> In my struggle to install demeter under ubuntu 16.04 I'm slowly
>>> advancing. I think some of the packages that were supposed to be
>>> installed following the first line of the protocol were incomplete. I
>>> have redone this and have now managed to build the dathena and other
>>> files, but when I want to start it I get the following error message:
>>>
>>>
>>> "marquinhos at marquinhos-Lapi:~/demeter$ bin/dathena
>>>
>>> Could not find Larch Server -- falling back to Ifeffit
>>> Can't locate object method "new" via package "Graphics::GnuplotIF" at
>>> /home/marquinhos/perl5/lib/perl5/i686-linux-gnu-thread-multi-64int/Demeter.pm
>>>
>>> line 239.
>>> Compilation failed in require at
>>> /home/marquinhos/perl5/lib/perl5/i686-linux-gnu-thread-multi-64int/Demeter/UI/Athena.pm
>>>
>>> line 24.
>>> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
>>> /home/marquinhos/perl5/lib/perl5/i686-linux-gnu-thread-multi-64int/Demeter/UI/Athena.pm
>>>
>>> line 24.
>>> Compilation failed in require at bin/dathena line 27.
>>> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at bin/dathena line 27.
>>> Can't exec "-p": No such file or directory at
>>> /home/marquinhos/perl5/lib/perl5/i686-linux-gnu-thread-multi-64int/Larch.pm
>>>
>>> line 270.
>>> "
>>>
>>> any ideas what might be the problem?
>>>
>>
>>
>> That seems to be saying that Graphics::GnuplotIF is not installed.
>>
>> It should have been installed when you did the "./Build installdeps" step.
>>
>> B
>>
>>
>>
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