diff --git a/doc/src/Install_linux.rst b/doc/src/Install_linux.rst index ec4f3fcc8e..bcbb86fcae 100644 --- a/doc/src/Install_linux.rst +++ b/doc/src/Install_linux.rst @@ -24,12 +24,13 @@ allows you to install LAMMPS with a single command, and stay up-to-date with the current version of LAMMPS by simply updating your operating system. -To install the appropriate personal-package archive (PPA), do the +To install the appropriate personal-package archives (PPAs), do the following once: .. code-block:: bash $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gladky-anton/lammps + $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openkim/latest $ sudo apt-get update To install LAMMPS do the following once: @@ -63,8 +64,24 @@ which will download the doc files in /usr/share/doc/lammps-daily-doc/doc and example problems in /usr/share/doc/lammps-doc/examples. -Note that you may still wish to download the tarball to get potential -files and auxiliary tools. +To get a copy of the current potentials files +To un-install LAMMPS, do the following: + +.. code-block:: bash + + $ sudo apt-get install lammps-daily-data + +which will download the potentials files in +/usr/share/lammps-daily/potentials. + +The LAMMPS binary is built with the :ref:`KIM package ` which +results in the above command also installing the `kim-api` binaries when LAMMPS +is installed. In order to use potentials from `openkim.org `_, you +can install the `openkim-models` package + +.. code-block:: bash + + $ sudo apt-get install openkim-models To un-install LAMMPS, do the following: @@ -72,17 +89,8 @@ To un-install LAMMPS, do the following: $ sudo apt-get remove lammps-daily -Note that the lammps-daily executable is built with the following -sequence of make commands, as if you had done the same with the -unpacked tarball files in the src directory: - -.. code-block:: bash - - $ make yes-all - $ make no-lib - $ make mpi - -Thus it builds with FFTW3 and OpenMPI. +Please use "lmp_daily -help" to see which compilation options, packages, +and styles are included in the binary. Thanks to Anton Gladky (gladky.anton at gmail.com) for setting up this Ubuntu package capability.