LIBPF^® Development Linux Installation manual

This is the installation manual for LIBPF^® (LIBrary for Process Flowsheeting) development version 1.1 on Linux operating systems, for the model developer or for the LIBPF^® core developer who want to prepare a Linux machine for LIBPF^® development.

LIBPF^® development is preferably done on Debian 12 (bookworm) or Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish). It should be possible to get it to work also on older Debian version (10 buster or 9 stretch), or another up-to-date Linux distribution, by adapting the instructions below.

Before starting, follow the instructions HOWTO setup a LIBPF^® kernel for Linux so that you have the runtime prerequisites, the database and the activated license.

Mandatory requirements

Install the mandatory requirements:

sudo apt install meson pkg-config swig python3-dev git

then install the C++ compiler, either gcc:

sudo apt install g++

or clang:

sudo apt install clang

Optional requirements

If you need to generate documentation, debug and test coverage:

sudo apt install lcov valgrind doxygen graphviz gdb

If you plan to run the Python / RESTful API:

sudo apt install python3-bottle python3-jsonschema python3-cherrypy3

For UI development you’ll need Qt version 5:

sudo apt install libqt5xml5 libqt5svg5-dev libqt5xmlpatterns5-dev libqt5sql5-psql qttools5-dev-tools make

Finally if you plan to create Debian packages:

sudo apt install lintian debhelper chrpath