Install Dakota 5.4 x64

It is not an easy task to get the Dakota toolkit (http://dakota.sandia.gov) running. Since I had problems getting it to run on Ubuntu I created a fresh CentOS x64 6.5 VM. This is the list of commands required to get the dakota executable to start:

1. Update your centos distribution
2. yum install gcc-c++ openmpi lapack libXpm openmotif-devel openmotif22
3. download, compile and install boost_1.49
4. ln -s /usr/lib64/libXm.so.3 /usr/lib64/libXm.so.2 - this is a nasty hack but it seems to work...
5. Untar dakota and rename its install directory to Dakota, I've installed it at /root/Dakota

Next, add the following to your .bashrc:

 DAKOTA_DIR=/root/Dakota/ 
 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$DAKOTA_DIR/lib:/usr/lib64/openmpi/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH 
 export PATH=$DAKOTA_DIR/bin:$PATH 

And finally try to call dakota -version. It should start and print its version number:

[root@centosik ~]# dakota -version
DAKOTA version 5.3 released 01/31/2013.
Subversion revision 1541 built Feb 13 2013 04:10:46.

I may have forgotten something, so if it still complains about missing libraries email us, we'll try to help. (dev { this is an AT sign } sorcersoft.com)

Debian 7

Build from sources

sudo aptitude install cmake gfortran libblas-dev libboost1.53-dev libboost-filesystem1.53-dev libboost-regex1.53-dev libboost-signals1.53-dev libboost-system1.53-dev liblapack-dev libopenmpi1.6-dev libopenmpi1.6 lesstif2
cmake -C $DAK_SRC/cmake/BuildDakotaCustom.cmake $DAK_SRC
make
sudo make install

update LD_LIBRARY_PATH with /usr/local/lib