Er, shouldn't this be in the Debian support list? A correctly installed OpenMPI will give you mpirun. If their openmpi-bin package doesn't, then surely it's broken? (Or is there a straight openmpi package?)
On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 00:16 +0900, Raymond Wan wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm very new to MPI and am trying to install it on to a Debian Etch > system. I did have mpich installed and I believe that is causing me > problems. I completely uninstalled it and then ran: > > update-alternatives --remove-all mpicc > > Then, I installed the following packages: > > libibverbs1 openmpi-bin openmpi-common openmpi-libs0 openmpi-dbg openmpi-dev > > And it now says: > > >> update-alternatives --display mpicc > mpicc - status is auto. > link currently points to /usr/bin/mpicc.openmpi > /usr/bin/mpicc.openmpi - priority 40 > slave mpif90: /usr/bin/mpif90.openmpi > slave mpiCC: /usr/bin/mpic++.openmpi > slave mpic++: /usr/bin/mpic++.openmpi > slave mpif77: /usr/bin/mpif77.openmpi > slave mpicxx: /usr/bin/mpic++.openmpi > Current `best' version is /usr/bin/mpicc.openmpi. > > which seems ok to me... So, I tried to compile something (I had sample > code from a book I purchased a while back, but for mpich), however, I > can run the program as-is, but I think I should be running it with > mpirun -- the FAQ suggests there is one? But, there is no mpirun > anywhere. It's not in /usr/bin. I updated the filename database > (updatedb) and tried a "locate mpirun", and I get only one hit: > > /usr/include/openmpi/ompi/runtime/mpiruntime.h > > Is there a package that I neglected to install? I did an "aptitude > search openmpi" and installed everything listed... :-) Or perhaps I > haven't removed all trace of mpich? > > Thank you in advance! > > Ray > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users
