Note: The information in this section does NOT apply to Autodesk Simulation Mechanical 360, in which analysis tasks are submitted to and solved on a cloud computing service.
The following version of Linux is approved for running the Autodesk Simulation Mechanical processors:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2
Linux Using CD: Use the following procedure to install the software on a Linux system using the installation CD:
- Log into the Linux machine as root.
- Copy the contents of the Autodesk Simulation Mechanical Software (Linux) CD into a folder on the Linux machine.
- Type rpm -i filename.noarch.rpm in a terminal window to begin the installation, where filename is replaced with the name of the installation file provided (such as algor-2014.00.00-xxxx). If you want to install as an upgrade to a previously installed program, then type rpm -U filename.noarch.rpm.
- After the installation completes Autodesk Simulation Mechanical will have been installed in /opt/algor. If you wish to move it to a different location you may move or copy the entire contents of the /opt/algor folder to a different folder.
- Check if SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux) is disabled. It must be disabled to run Autodesk Simulation Mechanical (to allow access to the shared libraries). To manually disable it, go to /etc/sysconfig/ and edit the selinux config file. Change the option to SELINUX=disabled.
- If the user will be submitting analyses to the Linux computer from the software installed on a Windows computer, then check if the 'Development' group of software packages is installed. If not, install the Development group. (This is not required if the user will be starting the analyses manually on the Linux computer.)
- In certain Linux systems (such as Fedora 18, 64 bit), after a successful installation of Autodesk Simulation Mechanical 2014, you may run into the following Linux error when trying to run a simulation:
/lib/ld-linux.so.2: bad ELF interpreter: No such file or directory
This issue can be resolved by installing the missing "ld-linux.so.2" library file. To install this library file, access your Linux terminal and type the following command:
yum install ld-linux.so.2
Note that you will have to be connected to the Internet to download and install this file.
Linux Using Downloaded Installer: Use the following procedure to install the software on a Linux system using the installation file downloaded from the Internet:
- Create a directory for the files.
- Move the .tar.gz file to the directory.
- Uncompress and explode the .tar.gz file by typing tar -xvzf filename.tar.gz in a terminal window, where filename is the filename you used when downloading the installer.
Notes:
- To run an analysis using distributed memory processing, additional third-party software needs to be installed. See the page MPI Clusters on Linux for details.
- To setup a Simulation Mechanical workstation to remotely submit analyses to a Linux computer or cluster, refer to the following help pages:
Other useful commands:
- Determine which version of Autodesk Simulation Mechanical is installed: rpm -q algor
- Uninstall Autodesk Simulation Mechanical: rpm -e algor
- For more info on rpm, type rpm -? in a terminal window in Linux.