Installation guide

Following are install instructions on Ubuntu. For other Linux distributions or Mac substitute apt-get for the appropriate package manager; on Windows the easiest option is to use a Linux-like environment, e.g. Cygwin.

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Ubuntu instructions

Prerequisites:

git (version control system)

c++ compiler that supports c++11

gsl (c++ library)

hdf5 (Fileformat library)

To install these:

sudo apt-get install git

sudo apt-get install g++

sudo apt-get install libgsl0-dev

sudo apt-get install libhdf5-dev

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Setup:

Download project:

git clone https://jfulse@bitbucket.org/jfulse/fqhe_mc_sphere.git

To download to a different folder “folderpath/”:

git clone https://jfulse@bitbucket.org/jfulse/fqhe_mc_sphere.git folderpath/

Compilation:

Go to the project folder (usually “fqhe_mc_sphere/” from where project was cloned, or “folderpath/” in example above)

cd fqhe_mc_sphere

Compile:

make

to use several cores use -j #. Example with 4 cores:

make -j 4

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Post install:

Updating programs:

To get the newest version of the programs, go into the project directory and enter

git pull origin master

The programs then have to be rebuilt:

make

Running programs from anywhere:

To add the programs to the system path, use PATH=$PATH:[path_to_programs]; e.g.

PATH=$PATH:~/fqhe_mc_sphere/

To make this permanent:

echo "PATH=$PATH:~/fqhe_mc_sphere/" >> ~/.bashrc