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Jorgen
2008-04-24, 20:27
If you are running the finite element program Abaqus you might be interested in learning that it is not too difficult to install it on the latest version of Ubuntu Linux 8.04. There are probably different ways to install Abaqus so that you can run any computer simulation, including user-material models (UMAT and VUMAT) subroutines.

Here are the steps that I took to install the Abaqus v6.7-EF on a i386 computer running Ubuntu 8.04:

1. Copy all files from the installation CD to the hard drive

2. Install the csh shell by typing the command: sudo apt-get install csh

3. Start the installation to typing: setup -nosystemchecks

4. Once everything is installed, you can try to start Abaqus/CAE. On my computer that did not work. I got the following error message:
/opt/abaqus/6.7-EF1/exec/ABQcaeK.exe: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Abaqus Error: Abaqus/CAE Kernel exited with an error.


5. Fix that problem by installing the missing library from the following web site (http://packages.debian.org/stable/base/libstdc++5).

6. Now everything should work just fine!

- Jorgen
amelro
2008-06-20, 05:37
Hi Jorgen,

I'm installing Abaqus 6.7-5 on Ubuntu 8.04 in a AMD64 machine. Installing Abaqus wasn't very difficult, but I'm having troubles with the Fortran compiler.

Let me start with the basics: which compiler have you installed? Intel's? And what version/release?

Thanks for setting up this forum,

Antonio Melro
Jorgen
2008-06-22, 18:47
I use the Intel v 9.1 ifort compiler. I recommend that you use exactly the compiler and version that Abaqus recommends based on your hardware.

- Jorgen
amelro
2008-06-23, 04:54
That is the problem...
I wasn't able to install Intel's 9.1 (strangely, 10.1 installed without any bumps). Are you using 32 or 64 bit Ubuntu?
amelro
2008-06-23, 04:58
Please ignore my previous post, you already mention it is a 32bit system. I'm installing in 64bit, so I'll be assuming that is the problem.

Since Abaqus 6.8 has already been released and it supports Intel Fortran 10.1, I'll just wait for it to arrive to my Faculty by mail and use it.

Thanks for your reply.
Jorgen
2008-06-24, 18:07
Just to specify, I am also running Abaqus v6.8 on Ubuntu 8.04.

Everything works fine except:
- I did not install the Abaqus web server so I cannot use the search function in the documentation. Why does the documentation require a 32-bit termcap library?

- CAE and Viewer does not work with Compiz. I guess that this is caused by the strange GUI framework what CAE is written in.

If anyone has been able to solve these problems, please let us know!

Jorgen
kilo
2008-08-25, 14:54
This may work

http://ubuntuforums.org/search.php?searchid=46924391

Insert this before "abaqus cae" command:

XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1

ex: XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 /abaqus_dir/abaqus cae
Jorgen
2008-08-25, 18:30
Very Nice :cool:
Your suggestion worked perfectly!

Thanks,
Jorgen
kilo
2008-08-28, 13:58
Has anyone managed to run Abaqus 6.7 and its subroutines with fortran 10.1? In Abaqus website the recommended compiler is given as 9.1 however this version is not compatible with my operating system ubuntu 8.04.

thanks
Jorgen
2008-08-28, 18:46
I'm running both Abaqus v6.7-EF1 and v6.8.1 using Intel Fortran 10.1 on a 64-bit computer running Ubuntu 8.04. I have no problems using user-subroutines. I vaguely remember having to make some adjustments as specified on the Abaqus support web site to make it work.

Let me know if you want me to try to dig up the steps that I had to go through.

- Jorgen
kilo
2008-08-29, 09:31
I changed the path for the libraries as stated in ABAQUS support FAQ and it started to work. Thanks very much.
Saguenay
2008-10-03, 14:27
I'm running both Abaqus v6.7-EF1 and v6.8.1 using Intel Fortran 10.1 on a 64-bit computer running Ubuntu 8.04. I have no problems using user-subroutines. I vaguely remember having to make some adjustments as specified on the Abaqus support web site to make it work.

Let me know if you want me to try to dig up the steps that I had to go through.

- Jorgen

Hi Jorgen,

If it would be possible to dig up the procedure that would be very appreciated, unfortunately with my academic license i cannot access the abaqus support.
I m using ABAQUS 6.7-EF1, ubuntu 8.04/32bits and Intel Fortran 10.1.018

Many thanks

LG