HOWTO: Install Intel Fortran 9.0

[Chickenmonger]

As an undergraduate student lucky enough to have been taught FORTRAN for scientific computing, I find a necessity to have not only gfortran but also Intel Fortran on my Linux boxes.

Intel Fortran has both a commercial version, and a non-commercial version, perfect for my studies.

The following was tested on a fresh install of the release version of Ubuntu Breezy, with all security updates as of 2005-11-11 applied.

1. First things first, install the prerequisite software packages:

sudo apt-get install rpm build-essential

2. Register at Intel's site for a non-commercial version of the Intel Fortran compiler.

http://www.intel.com/cd/software/pro...lin/219857.htm

Intel's site will send you an email that starts with the following:

Thank you for registering the Intel(R) Fortran Compiler for Linux*.

SAVE THIS SERIAL NUMBER
Your serial number for this registration is...

2. Download the compiler archive:

http://www.intel.com/cd/software/pro...ers/219717.htm

3. Extract the compiler archive

tar xvzf l_fc_p_9.0.021.tar.gz

4. Run the installer

cd l_fc_p_9.0.021
sudo ./install.sh

5. Choose Option 1 to install Intel Fortran; choose Option 1 to proceed with a serial number.

6. Type in the serial number (case-sensitive) given in the email. (XXXX-XXXXXXXX). Choose 1 for a default install.

7. Press Enter to read the license agreement. The spacebar speeds through this quickly. Type 'accept' to accept the license agreement.

8. Press Enter to accept the default install directory for the compiler. The installation of the compiler takes some time. Press Enter to continue.

9. Press Enter to accept the default install directory for the debugger. The debugger takes some time to finish. Press Enter to continue.

10. At this point, the installer seemed to stop. It can be exited with CTRL-C, and it does not seem to affect the install.

11. To make the binaries and shared libraries easily found, add the following lines to your .bashrc:

PATH="/opt/intel/fc/9.0/bin:$PATH"
export PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/opt/intel/fc/9.0/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

[phen]

Hi! Thank you very much for your help on that topic. i've never been able to install it fully functional under hoary, now i will try your .bashrc tip (i was stuck there...)

[rusi_pathan]

For installing Fortran 8.0 on warty I used alien to create a deb. Instructions are available here...

http://www.theochem.uwa.edu.au/fortran/intel_on_debian
http://colt.projectgamma.com/intel/ixc-debian.html

[phen]

i added your howto to the ubuntuscientists website. please delete it if you don't want to be linked (or write me).... https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuScientists

[firehead]

worked great for me
your .bashrc tip was very useful. i had to add "unset LANG" to the .bashrc as well, since calling ifort always yielded "cannot find directory in which g++ resides" which can only cured (afaik) with unset LANG...

thx alot

[pestilence4hr]

It's nice that the install actually works now, you used to have to use alien to make a deb.

In any case, I think the proper way to set the environment variables is to put the following in your .bashrc:

source /opt/intel/fc/9.0/bin/ifortvars.sh
source /opt/intel/idb/9.0/bin/idbvars.sh

This will set all of the paths, including your PATH, MANPATH, etc.

[hutxubix]

Hello¡¡

I need help. I tried to install intel fortran compiler as chikenmonger explained but I got the message:
install_fc.sh can't identify your machine type, glibc, or kernel.

This product is supported for use with the following combinations :

Machine Type Kernel glibc

1. IA-32/EM64T 2.4.x 2.2.5
IA-32/EM64T 2.4.x 2.2.4
IA-32/EM64T 2.4.x 2.2.93
IA-32/EM64T 2.4.x 2.3.2
IA-32/EM64T 2.6.x 2.3.x
IA-32/EM64T 2.6.x 2.4.x

x. Exit

If you would you like to perform an unsupported install of this product, enter the number corresponding to the platform most similar to yours. Otherwise, enter "x" to exit : 2.6.x
Inappropriate choice. Please try again : 2.6.x 2.3.x
Inappropriate choice. Please try again : 6
Inappropriate choice. Please try again : 5

I can only choose 1 or x. If I choose 1., it doesn't install.

Can anybody help me please?

[hutxubix]

Ok, i've found another topic about this at

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=169664

where very interesting things are said. I could install the compiler following those instructions but I can not install the debugger idb, and what it worst, I can't install the libraries mkl from intel. Can somebody help me?

[hutxubix]

ups¡¡ that thread is closed, so I go on here. How can I install the debugger and the math libraries mkl?

Thanks

[alin.elena]

here I have described how to install inte compilers+debugger
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=179589
i will try to find time to write the how to for mkl too.

Alin