Re: [Swarm-Support] Installation of Swarm from packages on 64-bit Ubuntu

[Scott Christley]

This 64bit "2.4.0" release put together by Paul should be deprecated and 
replaced with the official 2.4.1 release.

We can release a Ubuntu package of the latest development branch, but there 
hasn't been a release of that yet.

Scott

On Mar 17, 2011, at 5:25 PM, Steve Railsback wrote:

> I recently installed the 64-bit version of Ubuntu 10.10 (the current 
> version), and then Swarm using Paul Johnson's packages. (My Swarm codes 
> seem to run in about 2/3 the time in 64-bit vs. 32, so there is a 
> significant advantage to 64.)
> 
> (The same method should work for 32-bit, I think. Just find and download 
> Paul's 32-bit versions of BLT and Swarm; Paul recently posted their 
> locations:
> http://www.swarm.org/pipermail/support/2011-March/015939.html )
> 
> Here is how I did the installation:
> 
> 1. Use the Synaptic Package Manager (under the "System" menu) to install 
> these packages:
> 
> tk
> tcl
> libhdf5-serial-dev
> 
> Just start typing the package name in the "Quick search" dialog and it 
> will find the package. I used the latest versions: 8.4.16-2 of tk and tcl.
> 
> 2. Download BLT and Swarm packages from Paul's site. If you just click 
> on these links in your browser, Ubuntu should download them to your 
> /Downloads directory. Paul currently has them here:
> http://pj.freefaculty.org/Ubuntu/10.04/amd64/blt/blt_2.4z-5_amd64.deb
> http://pj.freefaculty.org/Ubuntu/10.04/amd64/swarm/libswarm-dev_2.4.0-1_amd64.deb
> http://pj.freefaculty.org/Ubuntu/10.04/amd64/swarm/libswarm0_2.4.0-1_amd64.deb
> http://pj.freefaculty.org/Ubuntu/10.04/amd64/swarm/libswarm0-dbg_2.4.0-1_amd64.deb
> 
> (I did not install Java Swarm; there's another package to add it.)
> 
> 3. Now install the BLT and Swarm packages. You can just double-click on 
> each one (BLT first) in Nautilus (the Linux file "explorer"). This opens 
> the Ubuntu Software Center, where you can just click an "install" button.
> 
> 4. Now you just need to set your "Swarmhome" environment variable. The 
> standard way is to edit the hidden file ".bashrc" that should be in your 
> home directory ( /home/MyUserName ). Just open this file in gedit and 
> add these 3 lines to the bottom:
> 
> #Set Swarm home
> SWARMHOME=/
> export SWARMHOME
> 
> Now, after you log out and back in, you should be able to compile and 
> run Swarm codes.
> 
> /////////////////////
> 
> PLEASE BE AWARE that Paul's current 64-bit package uses the latest 
> development version of Swarm, which has at least one important change 
> from the stable version 2.2. The Swarm class "Zone" was changed to 
> "SwarmZone". So if your code creates zones using statements like this:
> 
>   modelZone = [Zone create: globalZone];
> 
> you will need to change it to:
> 
>   modelZone = [SwarmZone create: globalZone];
> 
> However, where you declare a zone:
> 
>   id <Zone> modelZone;
> 
> do *NOT* change it to "SwarmZone".
> 
> ///////////////////////
> 
> Steve Railsback
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