CCL:G: Gaussian on Centos?



Hi (myself? :),

I'm sure you tried, and I'm by no means implying it would be easy (or that I'd be able to do it when all's said and done).  I'd certainly like to try.  I'll dig around here and see if we don't have some kind of site license that will let me attempt it.  Without it, Gaussian and GaussView are much to expensive to expect an individual to swallow the cost (especially for a graduate student).

I merely remarked that it must be POSSIBLE to install GaussView on any Linux flavor, since at the end of the day Linux is Linux.  However, all flavors of Linux are different, and different groups decide that different components are "essential", so the likelihood that it'll work out-of-the-box on all/most distributions is slim-to-none. Not having access to the source code and being able to compile it on-site means that we have to pick and guess about the ones that GaussView was linked to at the time it was built, or any of the other dependencies that it may have.

Furthermore, Gaussian is faced with one of 2 options: 1) Work to make GaussView as compatible as possible with as many platforms as possible. 2) Make it work well with 1 platform and make that a prerequisite.  Based on the relative difficulty of the two, you can hardly be surprised they went with the latter.

All the best,
Jason

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Jason DAcchioli jdacchio * gmail.com <owner-chemistry.:.ccl.net> wrote:
Hi Jason,

I did try. Honest, I did, but with no luck (I took a look at the link you sent a few months ago, but again, no dice). If anyone else out there has a good recipe, please let me know! Thanks again for the info.

Be well,

Jason

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Jason Swails swails%qtp.ufl.edu <owner-chemistry{:}ccl.net> wrote:


On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Jason D Acchioli jdacchio---gmail.com <owner-chemistry(_)ccl.net> wrote:
Hi Daniel,

Both Gaussian and Gaussview will run on CentOS; I've got it working on an Altix XE310 in my lab. A word of warning, though; if you get Gaussview, it will only run on CentOS or Redhat. It doesn't run on Ubuntu, or any other open-source Linux flavor (easily, at least).

ooh! A challenge!  Were it not for the hefty price tag I'd give it a go.  An ubuntu thread that may be helpful:  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=634578" target="_blank">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=634578

In any case, Linux is Linux, so I can't imagine it's completely incompatible with other flavors.  It may be necessary to install additional packages with the proper library versions.

As a side-note, SUSE 10 is listed as a supported platform if an additional package is installed.

All the best,
Jason



Be well,

Jason

Jason S. D'Acchioli
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Daniel Strahs dstrahs|pace.edu <owner-chemistry],[ccl.net> wrote:

Sent to CCL by: Daniel Strahs [dstrahs**pace.edu]
Hello colleagues:

Has any one had any experience installing Gaussian for Linux/Red Hat
Enterprise on the Centos OS? The binary compatibility with RedHat
interests us.

Thanks for any responses!

--
Daniel B. Strahs
Associate Professor
Biology and Health Sciences Department
Pace University, New York



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Jason M. Swails
Quantum Theory Project,
University of Florida
Ph.D. Graduate Student
352-392-4032




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Jason M. Swails
Quantum Theory Project,
University of Florida
Ph.D. Graduate Student
352-392-4032