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[Daniel Winklehner <winklehn AT mit.edu>]

Hi Eric,

 

After extracting the opal binary archive with tar, did you source the shell script that sets up the paths to the modules (dependencies)? It should be executed from the OPAL root folder (after extraction without changing the name, it is “./OPAL-2.0.0rc2”) by calling “source ./etc/profile.d/opal.sh”. I just tried this on Ubuntu 16.04 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) and it worked right out of the box.

 

Here’s what I did:

 

> wget http://amas.web.psi.ch/Downloads/OPAL/package/OPAL-2.0.0rc2-2-x86_64-linux.tar.xz

> tar –xvf OPAL-2.0.0rc2-2-x86_64-linux.tar.xz

> cd OPAL-2.0.0rc2

> source ./etc/profile.d/opal.sh

> opal

 

Best,

   Daniel

 

P.S.: Compiling it from scratch requires a number of libraries that can be difficult to install on some systems (boost, hdf5, H5Hut, etc.). Together with Achim Gsell at PSI, we tested a method (again, Linux tested only) to use the modules (tool-chain) that come with the binary to get an environment that lets us compile opal from the master repository on gitlab. If that is of interest for you, I will produce a little write-up.

 

From: opal-request AT lists.psi.ch <opal-request AT lists.psi.ch> On Behalf Of Nicole Neveu
Sent: Wednesday, August 8, 2018 18:04
To: Eric Prebys <eprebys AT ucdavis.edu>
Cc: opal <opal AT lists.psi.ch>
Subject: Re: [Opal] Installing OPAL code

 

Hi Eric,

 

Did you clone with https or ssh?

 

This should work:   git clone https://gitlab.psi.ch/OPAL/src.git

 

But this probably wont work:   git clone git AT gitlab.psi.ch:OPAL/src.git

 

Can you also send the executable errors you got?

I'm sure the OPAL developers would be interested in that as well.

 

Thanks,

 

Nicole

 

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 4:58 PM, <eprebys AT ucdavis.edu> wrote:

I recently took over as head of the Crocker Nuclear Laboratory at UC Davis,
and I would like to use OPAL to model our cyclotron.  I tried to download
the executables from
https://gitlab.psi.ch/OPAL/src/wikis/downloads

but both the Mac and the Linux versions ran into trouble with the versions
of some of the libraries they were looking for, so I think I need to build it.
I tried to follow the build instructions at:
https://gitlab.psi.ch/OPAL/src/wikis/For%20Developers/Compile-OPAL-on-Mac

But the git clone command returns the following error:
git AT gitlab.psi.ch: Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.

Please make sure you have the correct access rights
and the repository exists.

I’d appreciate it if you could let me know what I need to do to
get access or to get one of these versions to work.

Thanks,
Eric

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Eric Prebys
Professor, Department of Physics
Director, Crocker Nuclear Laboratory
University of California, Davis
http://physics.ucdavis.edu/people/faculty/eric-prebys
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