How to install Gaussian & Gaussview under linux platform

most of the new linux are too new and don’t content the necessary old libraries,so it’s a bit difficult to install gaussian & gaussview

Ubuntu 8.04 ,debian 4.04 ,centos 5.2 can’t run them directly

but,it’s true I want to do my work under linux and to devote my life to linux. so I sepnt almost two whole days to fix the problem,at last I made it.

my account is bigant , the home directory is /home/bigant
I want to install Gaussian in /home/bigant/g03
and install GaussView in /home/bigant/gv

first my gaussian is a tar.gz file,

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$ tar zxvf g03.tar.gz #uncompress the file
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edit my acount’s .bashrc file

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$ cd ~
$ cat >> ~/.bashrc <<“EOF”
#I use gaussian 03 linux version,so I need configures as below
export GAUSS_EXEDIR=/home/bigant/g03
export g03root=/home/bigant
export LD_LIRBARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/home/bigant/g03
export PATH=/home/bigant/g03:$PATH
export GAUSS_SCRDIR=/tmp
EOF

$source .bashrc
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then run g03
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$ cd g03
$ ./g03
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if it report errors like: error while loading shared libraries: util.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
someone say create a file /etc/ld.so.conf.d/gaussian.conf
add the directory that contents the util.so,and that is /home/bigant/g03/
then
$/sbin/ldconfig -v

but it did’nt work,so I copy the util.so to /usr/lib/
and if the report errors like this again,I copied the *.so to /usr/lib again
it true works
(under ubuntu ,it’s a bit difficult to get the *.so file from the rpm file,I did this by
$ sudo apt-get install alien
$ alien *.rpm change the *.rpm to *.deb
$ dpkg-deb -x *.deb ./
this uncompressed the rpm files in the same directory)
i use root to copy the file, bigant can not run g03,so root do so
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# chmod a+rx /usr/util.so
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if g03 report g03 can not locate *.exe,
use this
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# chomod a+rx /home/bigant/g03/*.exe
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and if g03 report errors
Erroneous write during file extend. write 448 instead of 4096
Probably out of disk space.
Write error in NtrExt1: No such file or directory

I use this to modify the kernel
# echo 0>/proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space

if you don’t want to do it everytime after you restart you pc
you can add this command to /etc/rc.local
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Install gaussview

modify the init_gv.bash
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export GV_DIR=’/home/bigant/gv/’
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then

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$ cat ~/gv/init_gv.bash >> ~/.bashrc
$ source .bashrc
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if you encount the errors like:error while loading shared libraries……….
you can copy the *.so* file to /usr/lib
if you can’t find the specific *.so you can search it in http://rpm.pbone.net/ download the rpm and umcompress it (it’s better not install it)
copy the specific *.so to /usr/lib

after that , you can run gv with $ gv & or $ gview &