Install in Debian 8.6 (Jessie)

Installation
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I would like you to write the instructions to install it in Debian 8,6 (Jessie), which it the latest stable Debian distribution

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Hi Javier,

I’m afraid Debian is not one of our officially supported platforms so we don’t regularly test that our binaries work there.

In theory the package for Ubuntu Trusty could work but I have just tried it in a Virtual Machine and it does not work as Debian Jessie uses a newer version of boost. This means that the only way to get it running here will be to build from source. Is this a possibility?

Regards,

Martyn

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Yes, of course. Are there available instructions to compile it?

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We have instructions for Ubuntu at http://www.mantidproject.org/Building_with_CMake#Ubuntu.

Some commands will not be available for Debian, however. The main part is configuring the prerequisites. Instead of sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mantid/mantidyou will need to add deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/mantid/mantid/ubuntu trusty main to /etc/apt/sources.list manually. Installing the mantid-developer package should then pull down the required dependencies.

The build step is then described here.