Installing prerequisites on Debian or Ubuntu¶

You should be able to use your package manager to get the prerequisites for PISM. Install the following packages using apt-get or synaptic or similar. All of these are recommended as they satisfy requirements for building or running PISM.

Table 3 Debian packages¶
Name	Comment
`cmake`	required; used to configure PISM
`g++`	required; used to build PISM
`git`	required; used to download PISM’s source code
`libfftw3-dev`	required by PISM
`libgsl-dev`	required by PISM
`libnetcdf-dev`	required by PISM
`libudunits2-dev`	required by PISM
`netcdf-bin`	required; `ncgen` is used during the build process
`petsc-dev`	required by PISM
`cdo`	optional; used in some pre-processing scripts
`cmake-curses-gui`	optional; a text-based interface for CMake
`libpnetcdf-dev`	optional; used for parallel I/O
`libproj-dev`	optional; used to compute longitude and latitude coordinates of grid points
`libx11-dev`	optional; used by PISM’s run-time viewers
`nco`	optional; used in many pre-processing scripts
`ncview`	optional; a nice tool for examining NetCDF datasets
`python3-dev`	optional; used by PISM’s Python bindings
`python3-netcdf4`	optional; used in most post-processing scripts
`python3-nose`	optional; used by PISM’s regression tests
`python3-numpy`	optional; used in some pre- and post-processing scripts
`python3-pyproj`	optional; used in some pre-processing scripts
`python3-scipy`	optional; used in some pre- and post-processing scripts
`swig`	optional; used to build PISM’s Python bindings

You may be able to install these by running

apt-get install -y cmake g++ git libfftw3-dev libgsl-dev libnetcdf-dev libudunits2-dev netcdf-bin petsc-dev cdo cmake-curses-gui libpnetcdf-dev libproj-dev libx11-dev nco ncview python3-dev python3-netcdf4 python3-nose python3-numpy python3-pyproj python3-scipy swig

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(You may need to add sudo or change this command to match your package system.)

The command above takes care of all PISM prerequisites, including PETSc. Set PETSC_DIR=/usr/lib/petsc1 and follow the steps in Building PISM to build PISM itself.

Footnotes

1: In this case you do not need to set PETSC_ARCH.