Create PATH for calculix precice adapter

Installing preCICE
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Hello all,
I’m trying to install Calculix and Precice to run FSI simulation with OpenFoam. I’ve been following these instructions (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0RuGXiLvrs). At 17:12, he mentions to go in .local/bin however I get no such file or directory.
Basically I’m stuck on the create PATH part.
If anyone could help me that would be appreciated. I’m on ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS

Thanks,
Marc

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Official documentation:

SInce you are using Ubuntu 20.04 (focal fossa), you can just do:

get https://github.com/precice/calculix-adapter/releases/download/v2.20.0/calculix-precice2_2.20.0-1_amd64_focal.deb
sudo apt install ./calculix-precice2_2.20.0-1_amd64_focal.deb

Side note for the future reader: If you use preCICE from a build directory, you may need to set the following in your ~/.bashrc (see Building from source - Finding | preCICE - The Coupling Library):

PRECICE_PREFIX="/path/to/precice/build"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$PRECICE_PREFIX:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
export LIBRARY_PATH="$PRECICE_PREFIX:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
export CPATH="$PRECICE_PREFIX/src:$PRECICE_PREFIX/../extras/bindings/c/include/:$CPATH"
export INCLUDE_PATH="$PRECICE_PREFIX/../extras/bindings/c/include/:$INCLUDE_PATH"
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$PRECICE_PREFIX:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"

After the CalculiX adapter for v3 is released (or when Use includes in more build steps by MakisH · Pull Request #119 · precice/calculix-adapter · GitHub gets merged), it will be enough to only specify the PKG_CONFIG_PATH.

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Thanks for your reply,

I was using Linux on WSL. I’ve seen gone another path and install ubuntu on a virtual machine with VMware. I’m getting a different error this time. I’ll start another thread to not confuse it for future reader

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I’ve also try what your suggesting but it doesn’t work for me. I forgot the exact error but it saying access denied to something. I know you can’t help me without the error code but just wanted to let you know.

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I’m lost here. I tried it again and I don’t get any error but it doesn’t install

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'calculix-precice2' instead of './calculix-precice2_2.20.0-1_amd64_jammy.deb'
calculix-precice2 is already the newest version (2.20.0-1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
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instead of './calculix-precice2_2.20.0-1_amd64_jammy.deb'

Your Ubuntu version is 20.04, which has the name “Focal Fossa”. You are trying to install a package for jammy, i.e., “Jammy Jellyfish”, 22.04. This is just the Ubuntu convention.

What this is telling you later, is that you already have the package installed:

calculix-precice2 is already the newest version (2.20.0-1).

Which means that if you run ccx_preCICE, you should get this message:

$ ccx_preCICE
Usage: CalculiX.exe -i jobname