Troubleshooting of the Installation Process

Installation of CMake

The CMake is a cross-platform build tool. In order to build the SALMON from the source code, the CMake of version 3.0.2 or later is required on your system.

Installation of pre-compiled binary

You can get the binary distribution from the download page. First, move to the installation directory of salmon,

cd <SALMON_INSTALLATION_DIRECTORY>

and download the binary distribution ( cmake-<VERSION>-<PLATFORM>.tar.gz) appropriate for your platform. You can do it by copy the URL of download link from the browser, and use wget command:

wget https://cmake.org/files/v3.8/cmake-3.8.2-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz

In this document, we will use version 3.8.2 as an example. You can unpack the archive

tar -zxvf cmake-3.8.2-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz

and you will have the binary make-3.8.2-Linux-x86_64/bin/cmake. To utilize the cmake command, the executable are settled inside the directory specified in your $PATH.

If you use the bash shell, you edit ~/.bashrc and append the line:

export PATH=<SALMON_INSTALLATION_DIRECTORY>/cmake-3.8.2-Linux-x86_64/bin:$PATH

, and reload the configuration source ~/.bashrc.

Installation from source code

Download the distribution from the download page.

tar xvfz cmake-<VERSION>.tar.gz
cd cmake-<VERSION>
./configure
make
make instal
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Installation by package manager

For several UNIX/Linux environment, your system already has the built-in package manager. and it will provide the most convenient way to install the cmake tools as below:

Debian/Ubuntu Linux

sudo apt-get install cmake

Fedora Linux/CentOS

sudo yum install cmake

openSUSE Linux

sudo zypper install cmake