Hi Dr. Troyer,

I am stuck at the "Build ALPS section". Listed below are the instructions I followed along with what I actually did:

Download a source package of ALPS: I downloaded alps-2.1.1-r6176-src.tar.gz (I was wondering if downloading alps-2.1.1-r6176-src-with-boost.tar.gz would be better).

Create a build directory and execute cmake giving the path to the alps and to the boost directory: I unzipped the source package and tried using

 $ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/install/directory /path/to/alps/directory

I don't know if I really understood this command line. But when I used it, I the error message "Cmake Error: The source 
directory does not appear to contain Cmakelists.txt"

Thanks,

Niraj

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Matthias Troyer <troyer@phys.ethz.ch> wrote:

Hi,

You need to tell us more about where you get stuck if you want to receive help.

Matthias Troyer

> On Jul 16, 2014, at 7:44, Niraj Ghimire <niraj.ghimire@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear alps users,
> I have been trying to build alps from source on Fedora 20 and I am having issues. I am new to alps and Linux OS itself, so I am spending too much time. I followed the instructions on "Get dependent libraries and tools on Fedora 20" and that was easy to understand and work out. Now I am on "Build ALPS". Either the instructions on "Build ALPS" are not sufficient for a Linux beginner like me or I am not being able to follow them. Please provide me with detailed instructions/guidelines or anything that helps, I will truly appreciate it.
>
> Thanks,
> Niraj