Martin,

The file attached is a collection of commands with which I was able to
install ASCEND4 on Ubuntu 12.04. Note the call "sudo dpkg -r blcr-dkms"
which was needed because the blcr-dkms package that was apt-get'ed with
coinor-libipopt-dev broke on install.

Regards,
DFE

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 4:08 AM, John Pye <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Martin
>
> Apologies for the delay. I have been using ASCEND for various power
> cycles with my FPROPS code and more recently have added a new model for
> heat exchanger pinch analysis. So far the heat exchanger model is quite
> crude, but I think we can improve on it, and perhaps you would like to
> be involved in that, especially if you have had exposure to methods for
> doing this in industry.
>
> ASCEND should be find with any 2.x version of Python, you should use
> whatever is provided on your system. We haven't yet tried to updated to
> Python 3, although that's probably going to need to be done quite soon.
>
> On Debian you should probably try building from source. It shouldn't be
> too hard, and there are some instructions on the wiki, and although
> they're more specific to Ubuntu, I wouldn't expect too many difficulties
> except possibly having to change the version of some dependency
> packages, perhaps.
>
> Happy to talk on or off list about some of your specific modelling
> tasks, if you're interested.
>
> Cheers
> JP
>
> On 12/08/12 21:03, Martin Lemmen wrote:
> > Hello all!
> >
> > I'd like to try & learn ascend, and I'm experiencing trouble with the
> > installation. ascend depends on python2.7, for some reason aptitude
> > doesn't want to install that. So obviously this isn't an ascend issue,
> > but maybe one that other debian-users have run into.
> >
> > I'd be grateful for any pointers to success stories.
> >
> > btw, as this is my first mail to the list as a short introduction - I
> > work as an  engineer designing biogas plants, while >90% of the
> > calculations I have to are solved by spreadsheets, I want to expand my
> > abilities a bit. I'd be mostly interested in modeling heat exchangers,
> > piping networks and the like, my understanding is that ascend can work
> > with a lot of systems as long as the model is accurate.
> >
> > Regards, Martin.
> >
> >
> >
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sudo apt-get install subversion
sudo apt-get install swig
sudo apt-get install g++
sudo apt-get install gfortran
sudo apt-get install python-dev
sudo apt-get install scons
sudo apt-get install flex
sudo apt-get install bison
sudo apt-get install graphviz-dev
sudo apt-get install libsundials-serial-dev
sudo apt-get install liblapack-dev
sudo apt-get install libblas-dev
sudo apt-get install ipython
sudo apt-get install python-matplotlib
sudo apt-get install coinor-libipopt-dev
sudo dpkg -r blcr-dkms
sudo apt-get install libmumps-seq-dev
sudo apt-get install lyx
sudo apt-get install lmodern

svn co svn://ascend4.org/code/trunk ascend

cd ascend

scons

pygtk/ascdev models/johnpye/testlog10.a4c

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