Gentoo Packages#

The Gentoo sci-libs/cantera package is provided using a main portage tree. Additionally the app-doc/cantera-docs package is provided for offline Documentation API reference for Cantera package libraries.

The following interfaces and tools are installed by default:

  • C++ Libraries and header files for compiling your own programs that use Cantera.

  • YAML tools.

  • Python module for Python 3 (python USE flag with appropriate PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET; optional).

The following additional interface is available:

  • Fortran library and module files for compiling your own programs that use Cantera (fortran USE flag; optional)

More information about USE flags can be found in the Gentoo Handbook. To learn about per-package control of USE flags, please refer to the /etc/portage/package.use article.

To install the sci-libs/cantera and app-doc/cantera-docs packages:

emerge --ask cantera cantera-docs

Most likely, the latest versions of these packages and/or some of their dependencies still have unstable status in the Gentoo portage tree. In this case, you have to unmask (allow installation within stable system) them preliminarily using /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords.

If /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords is present in your system as file then (for 64-bit architecture) you could unmask sci-libs/cantera package by running the following command (as root):

echo "sci-libs/cantera ~amd64" >> /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords

Otherwise, if /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords is present in your system as a directory, run the following command (as root):

echo "sci-libs/cantera ~amd64" >> /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/cantera

Tip

If you plan on using Cantera from Python, you may also want to install IPython (dev-python/ipython, an advanced interactive Python interpreter) and Matplotlib (dev-python/matplotlib, a plotting library). Matplotlib is required to run some of the Python examples. These packages can be installed with:

emerge --ask ipython matplotlib
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