Molflow on Debian-based Linux

Install using binaries

Molflow only runs on 64-bit Linux versions.

You need to use the terminal to...

For example, on Ubuntu LTS 24.04, the following is required:

Download and extract Molflow and open a Terminal in the directory where you extracted it
Add the universe repository to the apt package manager (probably you'll get a message that it's already added):
sudo add-apt-repository universe
Install the p7zip package:
sudo apt install p7zip
- 2.9 versions might also require libgomp1, libopengl0 and libopengl-dev (OpenMP and OpenGL)
- Versions not using vcpkg, i.e. 2.9-2.9.24 also require the libsdl2-2.0 gsl-bin libatlas-base-dev packages
Make the three binaries in Molflow's folder executable*:
chmod +x molflow molflowCLI compress

Tip

On versions 2.7, there was no molflowCLI and on 2.8, molflowCLI was called molflowSub
Run Molflow: ./molflow

Mint Linux

For Mint Linux, a user reported that the required install command is:

sudo apt install libsdl2-2.0-0 gsl-bin libatlas-base-dev p7zip libopengl0

For other Linux versions, the complete list of dependencies (with the apt package name in parentheses) is:

I'm happy if you report back errors or failures of the above instructions.

You can also build MolFlow+ from source, which should work on most Linux distribution. See build instructions in the Gitlab repo.

Last update: November 20, 2024