Installation

The binary for Met.3D is available under Linux using conda. The conda system provides package management that is independent from your Linux system and safely keeps all packages in an environment. This way, everything you install for Met.3D will not interfere with your base system. Also, using conda is independent of your Linux distribution, hence the described approach should work with any Linux distribution and version.

If you haven't done so yet, you need to install conda first. Here, we use the miniconda distribution. We recommend to install miniconda into a directory that provides enough disk space (default is in you home directory, you may want to use a different directory).

wget https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
chmod +x Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh
./Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh

After installing conda, you can create a conda environment for Met.3D, so that it won't interfere with any other conda environment. Afterwards you can activate the environment.

conda create -n met3d_binaries
conda activate met3d_binaries

Afterwards, you can install Met.3D in your conda environment using the following command:

conda install -c met3d -c conda-forge met3d

Running Met.3D

To run Met.3D, activate your conda environment and start Met.3D by typing:

# Make sure your "met3d" conda environment is activated:
conda activate met3d_binaries
 # Start Met.3D:
met3d

Know Issues

"met3d: command not found"

Following the above installation instructions, this error may occur when trying to run Met.3D. Please try to deactivate and reactivate the conda environment into which you installed Met.3D.

# Deactivate and reactivate your "met3d" conda environment:
conda deactivate met3d_binaries
conda activate met3d_binaries