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 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

Installation of pre-compiled binary

Download the binary appropriate for your system from the download page. By extracting the downloaded archive,

tar xvfz cmake-<VERSION_PLATFORM>.tar.gz

you will have the cmake binary inside bin directory. To use the cmake command, these executables are settled inside the directory specified in your $PATH.

Installation from source code

Download the distribution from the download page.

tar xvfz cmake-<VERSION>.tar.gz
cd cmake-<VERSION>
./configure
make
make install