[Radiance-general] Radiance 5.0 installation on ubuntu 14.04

[Rob Guglielmetti]

I would still recommend compiling from source using the makeall script, because it’s worked well for years and years. The dreaded “there were some errors” message is usually because you did not run the makeall script as root (i.e. "sudo makeall install” instead of just “makeall install”). You also need to make sure you have the “auxiliary files" archive in addition to just the source code. 

The NREL binaries for Linux were built on Ubuntu, so they would probably work ok for you, assuming you can get everything unpacked and copied to the right locations; the makeall script just does this for you a little more easily, IMHO. 


> On Mar 17, 2016, at 7:20 PM, Humberto Antunes <hs.antunes at campus.fct.unl.pt> wrote:
> 
> I everyone,
> 
> I was using a version of radiance from the apt-get, i guess the version we get when we install radiance like that is 4.1, but i need some functions from the newer version like gendaymtx, i have tried to install from source code with the ./makeall install and i received the message "there were some error" i have read all the info on readme and nox11help but nothing seems to work, after doing a bunch of stuff nothing was working at all.
> 
> I needed to make a clean install of ubuntu so i did it and now i have my computer completely clean.
> 
> Now i want to make a clean installation of radiance 5.0 to get it running smoothly.
> 
> Should i use the binaries from NREL to LINUX 64 or compile it from source, witch is better?
> 
> Thank to all
> Humberto A.
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