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update information about the ubuntu binaries to recommend the new stable packages

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Axel Kohlmeyer 2020-07-10 22:50:47 -04:00
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@ -21,8 +21,14 @@ Pre-built Ubuntu Linux executables
A pre-built LAMMPS executable suitable for running on the latest
Ubuntu Linux versions, can be downloaded as a Debian package. This
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.
up-to-date with the current stable version of LAMMPS by simply updating
your operating system. Please note, that the repository below offers
two LAMMPS packages, ``lammps-daily`` and ``lammps-stable``. The
LAMMPS developers recommend to use the ``lammps-stable`` package for
any production simulations. The ``lammps-daily`` package is built
from the LAMMPS development sources, and those versions may have known
issues and bugs when new features are added and the software has not
undergone full release testing.
To install the appropriate personal-package archives (PPAs), do the
following once:
@ -37,16 +43,16 @@ To install LAMMPS do the following once:
.. code-block:: bash
$ sudo apt-get install lammps-daily
$ sudo apt-get install lammps-stable
This downloads an executable named ``lmp_daily`` to your box, which
This downloads an executable named ``lmp_stable`` to your box, which
can then be used in the usual way to run input scripts:
.. code-block:: bash
$ lmp_daily -in in.lj
$ lmp_stable -in in.lj
To update LAMMPS to the most current version, do the following:
To update LAMMPS to the most current stable version, do the following:
.. code-block:: bash
@ -58,25 +64,25 @@ To get a copy of the current documentation and examples:
.. code-block:: bash
$ sudo apt-get install lammps-daily-doc
$ sudo apt-get install lammps-stable-doc
which will download the doc files in
``/usr/share/doc/lammps-daily-doc/doc`` and example problems in
``/usr/share/doc/lammps-stable-doc/doc`` and example problems in
``/usr/share/doc/lammps-doc/examples``.
To get a copy of the current potentials files:
.. code-block:: bash
$ sudo apt-get install lammps-daily-data
$ sudo apt-get install lammps-stable-data
which will download the potentials files to
``/usr/share/lammps-daily/potentials``. The ``lmp_daily`` binary is
``/usr/share/lammps-stable/potentials``. The ``lmp_stable`` binary is
hard-coded to look for potential files in this directory (it does not
use the `LAMMPS_POTENTIALS` environment variable, as described
in :doc:`pair_coeff <pair_coeff>` command).
The ``lmp_daily`` binary is built with the :ref:`KIM package <kim>` which
The ``lmp_stable`` binary is built with the :ref:`KIM package <kim>` which
results in the above command also installing the `kim-api` binaries when LAMMPS
is installed. In order to use potentials from `openkim.org <openkim_>`_, you
can install the `openkim-models` package
@ -89,9 +95,9 @@ To un-install LAMMPS, do the following:
.. code-block:: bash
$ sudo apt-get remove lammps-daily
$ sudo apt-get remove lammps-stable
Please use ``lmp_daily -help`` to see which compilation options, packages,
Please use ``lmp_stable -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