Hi there, I set up Ascend under Ubuntu, gnewsense (http://gnewsense.org/) and Raspbian. I'm trying to give you a general installation process for Ascend in the following lines...when the installation doesn't work for you then please read the output in the terminal and try to find out which packages are missing or what the problem is. This link is of course also very important: http://ascend4.org/Building_ASCEND
Make sure you have the following packages installed: TERMINAL: sudo apt-get install subversion gcc g++ gfortran flex bison scons swig doxygen sudo apt-get install tcl tcl-dev tk tk-dev tk-table graphviz graphviz-dev sudo apt-get install python2.7 libgtk2.0-0 python-gtk2 python-matplotlib python-numpy ipython sudo apt-get install python-dev libsundials-serial-dev sudo apt-get install liblapack-dev libblas-dev coinor-libipopt-dev sudo apt-get install libcunit1-dev libmumps-seq-dev lyx Then try to install via the subversion repository: TERMINAL (location home/USERNAME/): svn co http://svn.ascend4.org/trunk ascend scons $WITH_GRAPHVIZ = /usr/lib/graphviz WITH_DOC=0 scons install I installed Ascend without the documentation system because I received the following message: "lyx too old. Install from sources. libqt4-core and libqt4-dev needed. Error output when trying to install ascend: LyX: Done! Warning: 474: Format not supported. Warning: Quiting. Error: Conversion script failed" ---------------------------------------- ~/ascend/doc/book.lyx is from a different version of LyX, but the lyx2lyx script failed to convert it. scons: *** [doc/book.tex] Error 1 scons: building terminated because of errors. This could be a task for bug squashing or improving the installation process. To make ascend work with lyx again (this of course also depends on the linux distribution you're using and what version of lyx gets installed with your distribution. I had the problem with a raspbian distribution last year. Is it still the case that lyx is too old when you try to install it without turning the documentation off? (neglect WITH_DOC=0)) Packaging ascend for Debian would also be nice in my opinion. For other tasks also check out what has be done last year for GSOC2015: https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org2/google/gsoc2015/ascend Adrian has for example worked on the GTK+3 support: https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/details/google/gsoc2015/dragon7/5724160613416960 To get a hang of FPROPS check out the code repository: http://code.ascend4.org/ascend/trunk/models/johnpye/fprops/ and try to understand it...takes some time to digest and the theory how the thermodynamic properties are calculated is also quite a steep learning curve (don't give up!). Try to figure out how FPROPS is structured and how the data is stored in the fluids folder and how the data is accessed. Regarding the GSOC2016 application: I followed GSOC2015 and was quite amazed of the quality of the applications. If you are very serious about applying for the ascend project then try finding a task as soon as possible and start working on it. Also start with writing down your task, the theory, the step stones, some code examples you have been working on for it and put it all in one document. Make it look like a paper and prove you're applying a scientific approach to your task. Also ask yourself if you really have time for it since you receive money and the workload can be quite much if you're a newbie to programming with C/Python/GTK+ and/or Ascend. As I can speak of myself: Working with Ascend is very rewarding. You learn in depth how a application for chemical engineering can look like and works. I'm only a contributor to Ascend so please don't take this email as an official or as a cast in stone statement. Cheers, mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Ascend-sim-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ascend-sim-users
