Installing Phoebe 1 on Ubuntu

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Installation tutorial for Phoebe1 on Ubuntu

Requirements

Using ubuntu 16.04.

installing essentials build tools
sudo apt-get install build-essential gfortran

installing lexical analyser, yacc grammar parser
sudo apt-get install flex bison

installing gnu-scientific library
sudo apt-get install libgsl-dev

installing gtk-doc
sudo apt-get install gtk-doc-tools

installing libglade
sudo apt-get install libglade2-dev

installing gnuplot
sudo apt-get install gnuplot

installing gnu-readline
sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev

Installation

The results of compilation will be installed in /usr/local/lib/ and /usr/local/lib/phoebe-plugins

installing phoebe-lib

cd phoebe-lib
./configure
make
sudo make install

installing phoebe-gui

cd phoebe-gui
./configure
make
sudo make install

installing phoebe-scripter

cd phoebe-scripter
./configure
make
sudo make install

installing phoebe-plugins

cd phoebe-plugins
./configure
make
sudo make install

installing phoebe-py

python setup.py build
python setup.py install --user

re-reading linux libraries

sudo ldconfig

Running

cd phoebe-py 

python phoebe.py 
PHOEBE-lib warning: configuration file not found, reverting to defaults.
PHOEBE configuration file not found.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "phoebe.py", line 63, in <module>
    backend.configure()
SystemError: error return without exception set

Is this normal? Is there any tutorial? @kecnry @aprsa

Additionally files with name "-" are appearing in directories, which are quite annoying.

I've checked that all compilations can be done also with clang compiler
CC=clang ./configure
so it should work also on OS X

[aprsa]

You have to run any of the phoebe frontends first (phoebe-gui, phoebe-scripter) so that they create a configuration file. Alternatively, you can create a configuration file manually. Long story short, phoebe-py is just a simple wrapper, it needs a genuine front-end to be run first.