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Last update: 26 September 2006

 

Gaussian 03 UNIX Binary Installation Instructions

  1. Select a group which will own the Gaussian files. Users who will run Gaussian should either already be in this group, or should have this added to their list of groups. Consult your system administrator if you need help with this process.

  2. Mount the CD. Information about how to do this for various types of computers can be found here.

  3. Change to the C shell, and set the g03root and mntpnt environment variables:
    4. $ /bin/csh  
% setenv mntpnt "/mnt/cdrom"      # Set to wherever cd is mounted. 
% setenv g03root "dir"            # Set to install location for G03. 
% cd $g03root
  4. Read the CD, set group ownership, and run the build script:
    5. % cat $mntpnt/tar/*.taz | zcat | tar xvf - 
% chgrp -R grp g03                # grp is the group from step 1. 
% cd g03 
% ./bsd/install
  5. You are now ready to run. Users will want to add the following to their .login file:
    6. setenv g03root "dir" 
setenv GAUSS_SCRDIR "scr-dir" 
source $g03root/g03/bsd/g03.login # sets up G03 run environment.

    The dir in the first command is the location of the g03 directory. For example, if the path to this directory is /usr/local/g03, then set g03root to /usr/local. The scr-dir in the second command is a directory to be used by default for Gaussian 03 scratch files. There should be plenty of disk space available at this location. Note that the angle brackets are NOT included.

    Bourne-type shell users would use these commands instead of the ones above: 

    g03root="dir" 
GAUSS_SCRDIR="scr-dir" 
export g03root GAUSS_SCRDIR 
. $g03root/g03/bsd/g03.profile