Dear Niraj,

Installing software in linux machines is a standard procedure. It might be useful for you to have a look to this link:

http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/unix7.html

No, you do not have to reinstall the dependences, assuming you have installed them correctly the first time.

A clean configure/installation requires that you delete the ALPS source directory, and start the installation process from the beginning. 

Regards,

German

On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Niraj Ghimire <niraj.ghimire@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Dr. Troyer,

          For the clean configuration/installation, do I need to remove dependent libraries (e.g, Python, CMake, etc.) and reinstall them ?

~Niraj

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Matthias Troyer <troyer@phys.ethz.ch> wrote:

Please try a clean configure and build, and report exactly what you have done. This now looks like a messed up configuration, as ALPS checks at configure time whether sys/systeminfo.h exists.

A note to all who want our help: 

WE CANNOT HELP UNLESS YOU TELL US EXACTLY WHAT YOU DID AND WHAT THE OUTPUTS WAS

Matthias Troyer

On 29 Jul 2014, at 14:53, Niraj Ghimire <niraj.ghimire@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Dr. Troyer,

       I was able to fix the issues I previously had. Now when I am trying to build alps, I am getting the message "...fatal error: sys/systeminfo.h: No such file or directory." I have no idea what that file is about - I searched everywhere in my system but was not able to find it. Would you be able to help me out ?

~Niraj

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Matthias Troyer <troyer@phys.ethz.ch> wrote:

Did you replace the paths with the actual paths on your system?

On 18 Jul 2014, at 13:04, Niraj Ghimire <niraj.ghimire@gmail.com> wrote:

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

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