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Molflow on Fedora-based Linux


Molflow running on lxplus

Prerequisites:

Molflow is dependent on OpenGL, OpenGL Utility Library (GLU), and for version 2.9 or before, the 7-zip libraries. In case they are missing install them like this:

ALMAlinux 9

sudo dnf install epel-release

sudo dnf install p7zip* - not required since version 2.10, as built in

sudo dnf install libglvnd-opengl

sudo dnf install mesa-libGLU

For CentosOS 8 or similar:

sudo dnf in libglvnd-opengl  
sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled PowerTools
sudo dnf install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm  
sudo dnf in p7zip

Install and run

  • Download and extract Molflow and open a Terminal in the directory where you extracted it

  • Make the three binaries in Molflow's folder executable*:
    chmod +x molflow molflowCLI

    Tip

    On versions 2.9, the binary compress needed to be mnade executable as well: chmod +x compress

    On versions 2.7, there was no molflowCLI and on 2.8, molflowCLI was called molflowSub

  • Run Molflow: ./molflow

We only tested on CERN's official Fedora distro, ALMALinux 9. Feedback is welcome how to make MolFlow run on other Fedora-based distros.

Last update: September 1, 2025