Ubuntu Packages#

As of Cantera 3.1.0, packages are available for Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa), Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish), Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble Numbat) and Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole). Generally, packages are available for the two most-recent LTS releases as well as the non-LTS releases supported on Launchpad at the time of the Cantera release. To see which Ubuntu releases and Cantera versions are currently supported, visit the Cantera PPA.

The available packages are:

  • python3-cantera - The Cantera Python module for Python 3.

  • libcantera-dev - Libraries and header files for compiling your own C, C++ and Fortran 90 programs that use Cantera.

  • cantera-common - Cantera data files and example programs

  • libcantera3.1 - The Cantera C++ library, for use by packaged C++ applications.

  • libcantera-fortran3.1 - The Cantera Fortran 90 library, for use by packaged Fortran 90 applications.

  • cantera - A metapackage that will install everything except for the development files.

Installing#

To add the Cantera PPA:

sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:cantera-team/cantera

To install all of the Cantera packages:

sudo apt install python3-cantera libcantera-dev

or install whichever subset you need by adjusting the above command. The cantera-common package is installed as a dependency if any other Cantera packages are selected.

Tip

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

sudo apt install python3-pip
pip3 install ipython matplotlib

Upgrading from an earlier Cantera version#

If you already have Cantera installed from the cantera-team PPA, you can ensure that you have the latest available version installed by running:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3-cantera

If you also have the libcantera-dev package installed, it should also be included on the apt install command line.

Installing pre-release Cantera versions#

Sometimes, pre-release (alpha or beta) versions of Cantera which represent work toward the next Cantera release will be available for users who want to use cutting-edge features or test compatibility with the new version before it is released. To see the latest Cantera versions available from this PPA, visit https://launchpad.net/~cantera-team/+archive/ubuntu/cantera-unstable.

These packages can be installed by additionally enabling the cantera-team/cantera-unstable PPA and then upgrading Cantera:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:cantera-team/cantera-unstable
sudo apt install cantera-python3 libcantera-dev

You should also have the cantera-team/cantera PPA enabled, since the cantera-unstable PPA only includes development versions.

If you later want to remove the development version and return to the latest stable version, run the commands:

sudo apt-add-repository --remove ppa:cantera-team/cantera-unstable
sudo apt remove cantera cantera-common libcantera-dev python3-cantera
sudo apt install python3-cantera libcantera-dev
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