Installing Yade (for Windows and Mac users)¶
In preparation for the THM short-course, we ask the participants to have a Linux Debian distribution installed on their laptop prior to arrival.
If you already have a debian distribution on your laptop, please follow the installation instructions on our website.
If you do not have a debian distribution on your laptop, you have three ways to get one:
Easiest way - Use our premade Virtual Machine (Windows)¶
We created a full debian machine preloaded with Yade + Paraview + Kate. You can install this easily with the following steps:
- Download and install VirtualBox for your OS.
- Download this yade_machine.ova file (this step may take a few minutes, so please be patient. The file is 6 gb.)
- Open VirtualBox and click “Tools>Import”
- Locate the ‘yade_machine.ova’ file that you downloaded, and click “Next”
- Edit the system properties to suit your needs. Set the CPU count to half of your laptop CPUs and the RAM to half of your total laptop RAM.
- Click “Import” on bottom right.
- Start the machine and it should bring you into the Ubuntu desktop where you can open a new terminal (Ctrl-alt-T) and type
yadedaily --version
To test that yade is already installed and ready to go.
Login details (feel free to change these as soon as you are into your new VM): user: yadeuser password: yadeuser
Less easy way - Create your own Virtual Machine (MacOS)¶
This is if the direction above do not work for you. The end result is the same.
- Download and install VirtualBox for your OS
- Download the Ubuntu 20.04 image
- Open VirtualBox and select “Machine>New…”
- Select “Type” as “Linux” and “Version” as “Ubuntu (64-bit)” (If you do not see Ubuntu 64-bit, contact me directly for assistance).
- Select at least 4gb of ram (preferably 8gb), Select “Create a virtual hard disk now”
- Name the machine and then click “Create”
- Choose 20-30gb of storage, leave the remaining options as default.
- Click “create”
- Click “Start” and then find the Ubuntu 20.04 .iso that you downloaded from Step 2.
- Follow the installation instructions (this will take some time depending on your HDD speed)
- Once Ubuntu is fully installed and you are inside the machine, go ahead and install yade by opening a terminal (Ctrl-alt-T to open a new terminal).
sudo bash -c 'echo "deb http://www.yade-dem.org/packages/ focal main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yadedaily.list'
wget -O - http://www.yade-dem.org/packages/yadedev_pub.gpg | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/yadedaily.asc
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install yadedaily
- Download and install Paraview.
You are all set!
