Installing Gamess and wxmacmolplt

Installing Gamess

Go to software center in kbuntu and install synaptic package manager

Go to synaptic and install all gfortran and csh and gcc

then

Download gamess-current.tar.gz

Copy gamess-current.tar.gz into the home folder

Open the terminal and type

tar xzf gamess-current.tar.gz

cd games

./config

Give highlighted ones as answers then press enter

Set the machine type to llinux64

Leave the gamess installation directory as the default (press enter)

Leave the gamess build location as the default (press enter)

Leave the gamess version number as 00

Enter "gfortran" for your choice of FORTRAN

Follow the onscreen instructions to obtain the gfortran version (4.8)

If you don't have math libraries installed, enter none

Use sockets

Then type

cd ddi

./compddi

mv ddikick.x ..

cd ..

./compall

./lked gamess 00

Then open the gamess folder and create a new folder and rename it as temp

then select rungms then open it in text editor then change below line as follows

set SCR=/tmp

set USERSCR=/tmp

set GMSPATH=location of gamess

Compiling is done be happy and make a test run. (./rungms exam01 > exam01.log)

To Download Gamess tar click here

How to install wxmacmolplt

Install  wxWidgets  using synaptic package manager

Copy wxmacmolplt-7.7.tar.gz into home

Type

tar xzf wxmacmolplt-7.7.tar.gz

cd wxmacmolplt

./configure

make

sudo make install

To download Wxmacmolplt click here