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Matthis Thorade edited this page Jun 20, 2017 · 14 revisions

The Linux installer for Dymola is available upon request from the Dymola reseller.
The installer comes as a .zip file containing a couple of .rpm packages.
For Ubuntu, these need to be converted to .deb packages using alien.
After conversion, they can be installed using dpkg.

Here are the steps required on Xubuntu 16.04.

  • Install a couple of packages that will be required later on
    • sudo apt-get install zip unzip
    • sudo apt-get install alien rpm lsb
  • Install some packages that Dymola will need
    • sudo apt-get install libjpeg62 libqt5x11extras5 libqt5script5
    • sudo apt-get install libc6-dev-i386 g++-multilib
  • Copy the installer .zip file to e.g. Downloads or some temporary directory
  • unzip it and cd to the linux_x86_64 directory
  • run sudo alien --scripts --keep-version --verbose dymola-2018.1-1.x86_64.rpm or similar and wait
    (Note: in the Dymola manual, the --scripts is missing).
  • run sudo dpkg -i dymola_2018.1-1_amd64.deb or similar to install the resulting .deb file
  • after installation, entering dymola in a terminal should open Dymola (in demo mode)
  • to configure the Dymola license, run sudo dymola, go to Help→License→Setup and enter the IP address and port number of the license server