ORCA---Computational-Chemistry/C2/Installation-of-ORCA-on-Linux/English
Title of the script: Installation of ORCA on Linux
Author: Madhuri Ganapathi and Snehalatha Kaliappan
Keywords: orca, linux, orca forum, register, login, download, setup alias path, extract files from tarballs, terminal, run input file, video tutorial.
Visual Cue | Narration |
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Title slide |
Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on Installation of ORCA on Linux. |
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Learning Objectives
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In this tutorial, we will learn to,
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System Requirements
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This tutorial is recorded using,
Ubuntu Linux OS version 20.04 Orca version 5.0.2 Gedit Text Editor version 3.36.2 Firefox Web browser version 95.0.1
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Pre-requisites |
To follow this tutorial,
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Code Files |
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Open a web browser and type orca forum in the Google search the web.
https://orcaforum.kofo.mpg.de/app.php/portal
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Open your web browser and type orca forum and press Enter.
You can see the first instance as ORCA Forum - Portal. Click on the link. ORCA Forum page opens. |
On the top right side of the page, we have links for Register and Login.
Point to the Register and Login links. |
On the top right side of the page, we have links for Register and Login. |
Cursor on the page.
Point to the Register link. |
If you are a first time user, you have to register on the ORCA Forum. |
Click on the Register link.
Point to ORCA Forum Registration page. Scroll down the page. |
Click on the Register link.
ORCA Forum - Registration page opens. Scroll down the page. |
Click on I agree to these terms button.
Point to ORCA Forum – Registration page. |
Click on I agree to these terms button.
The Registration page refreshes with the details. |
Point to the registration details part.
Point to the message. |
Here you have to type your details to register on the ORCA Forum.
Please enter your valid email address in the Email Address text box. |
Click on the Submit button. | Click on the Submit button to complete the registration.
You need to click on the link sent in the email to get the registration activated. |
Point to login. | I have already registered on the ORCA Forum.
So I will login now. |
Fill in the details to login.
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I will log in using my Username and password. |
Point to the page.
Click on the Downloads link on the top left side. |
A new page opens.
On the top left side, click the Downloads link. |
Point to Downloads – Categories page.
Point to the various versions on the page. |
Downloads – Categories page opens.
The page shows various versions of ORCA. |
Click on the ORCA 5.0.2 folder link. | A new version of ORCA might be available at the time of your download.
A new page ORCA 5.0.2 opens.
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Point to the 3 files.
Point to the file sizes |
The page has the required files for Linux as 3 compressed tarball files.
Make sure that at least 35 GB of hard disk space is available on your system. We need to download all 3 parts one at a time. |
Click on ORCA 5.0.2, Linux, x86-64, .tar.xz Archive, Part ⅓.
Point to the file size. |
Click on ORCA 5.0.2 part 1 of the tar.xz file link.
The page refreshes. Here are the details of this file. You can see the file size here.
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Point to the green Download button.
Click on the Download button. |
Click the large green Download button at the bottom-right to start downloading. |
Point to the dialog box.
Click on Save File option to download. Click the OK button to download the file. |
A dialog box opens, which prompts you to save part 1 file.
Then click the OK button to download the file.
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Point to the tar.xz file. | Here, the file downloads to the Downloads directory.
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Click the part 2 tarball file link.
Show the downloading files. |
Now download part 2 tarball file. |
Click the part 3 tarball file link. | Similarly, download part 3 tarball file for Linux. |
In the left panel select Downloads. | Open the File manager and go to Downloads directory.
Notice the three downloaded tarball files. |
Enlarge the folder orca using Ctrl ++
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Let us create a new directory and move these files to this directory.
From the context menu select the New Folder option. |
Type the name as orca in the Folder Name text box.
>> Click Rename button. |
Rename the folder as orca. |
Point to the orca directory.
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Let’s move the 3 downloaded files to this newly created orca directory.
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Right-click on any one of the files.
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Right-click on any one of the files.
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Select the newly created orca directory.
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Select the newly created orca directory.
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Double-Click on the orca folder to open it.
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Double-click to open the orca directory.
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Press Ctrl, Alt and T keys together.
Open a terminal. |
We will use terminal commands to extract the files.
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cd Downloads
>> Press Enter.
>> Press Enter. |
Let us change the path to where we have saved the files.
Type cd space Downloads and press Enter. Then type cd space orca and Press Enter. |
tar -xvf orca_5_0_2_linux_x86-64_openmpi411_part1.tar.xz
Point to the created folder.
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Extract the files one by one as seen with the tar hyphen(-) xvf command.
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Point to the extraction process.
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Please wait for the extraction to complete.
This may take some time. Here are the extracted files. After the first part is extracted the prompt is seen on the terminal.
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tar -xvf orca_5_0_2_linux_x86-64_openmpi411_part1.tar.xz
>> Press Enter.
>> Press Enter.
>> Press Enter. |
Edit the part number in the file name as shown.
Press the Enter key.
Wait for the extraction to complete.
Repeat this process until you have extracted the files from 3 tarballs. |
Point to the directories.
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We have completed the extraction of all the parts.
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Double click to open the folder.
Ctrl + X to cut the files Ctrl + V to paste the files. |
We have to put all the extracted files in the orca directory.
Then paste the files in the orca directory.
And then paste them in the orca directory. |
Select the tarball files and empty directores.
Press the Delete key on the keyboard. |
You may delete the empty directories.
All the files must be placed together for the program to function. |
Press Ctrl + L keys. | Press control and L keys together to clear the terminal. |
Type ls to list the files.
Scroll and show the files on the terminal. |
At the prompt type ls and press Enter to list the files.
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Point to the compiled files in the folder.
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Here, all the files are already compiled and are in executable format.
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Press Ctrl + L keys. | Press control and L keys together to clear the terminal. |
Type pwd on the terminal.
/home/spoken/Downloads/orca |
Type pwd and press Enter to find the path of this folder.
Note down the folder path.
Alias is a temporary, short, and legible command which users can define.
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Type cd ~ >> press Enter.
Go to the Home directory.
>> press Enter. |
Type cd space tilda(~) and press Enter to go to the user's Home directory.
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Go to the last line
alias orca ‘filepath’
>> click on X button. |
Scroll down, go to the last line in the file.
Type alias space orca equal to ‘filepath’ in single quotes. Users must type their file path here, which was noted down earlier. Save and exit the file. |
Type source .bashrc at the prompt.
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Go back to the terminal, to source the file.
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Point the parent orca file in the Downloads directory. | We have created the alias for the ORCA executable file.
If you move the orca folder, be sure to change the path in the alias command. |
Type orca at the prompt and press enter.
This program requires the name of a parameter file as argument For example ORCA TEST.INP |
Type orca at the prompt and press Enter.
For example ORCA TEST.INP |
Cursor on the terminal. | Let us now check the installation with an input file. |
Show file in Home folder.
Open and show carbonmonoxide.inp file. |
I have created an orca input file for carbonmonoxide molecule.
The input file is saved in a separate directory named carbonmonoxide. It is provided in the Code files link for learners to download and use it. Open the input file in a text editor. Notice that it is in text file format.
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Press Ctrl+Alt + T keys together to open the terminal.
orca /home/spoken/carbonmonoxide/carbonmonoxide.inp |
Go to the terminal.
At the prompt type, orca space, type the path for the input file. Here I am typing the path for my input file.
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Point to the processing.
Open and show the output files in the directory after orca terminates normally. |
Observe that the input file is being processed.
You will see a message ORCA TERMINATED NORMALLY
Here are the generated output files.
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Only Narration | With this, we come to the end of this tutorial.
Let us summarise. |
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Summary |
In this tutorial, we have learnt to,
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Assignment
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As an assignment
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Spoken Tutorial Project |
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Spoken Tutorial workshops |
We conduct workshops using spoken tutorials and give certificates.
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Answers for This Spoken Tutorial |
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Forum for specific Questions |
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Acknowledgements |
Spoken Tutorial project is funded by the Ministry of Education (MoE), Govt. Of India |
This is Madhuri Ganapathi from IIT, Bombay signing off.
Thank you for watching. |