Note: Starting in 2025R1, Lumerical products are now available in the Ansys automated installer. See Installing Lumerical Using the Ansys Automated Installer for more information.
This article provides the standard installation process for Ansys Optics on RHEL and Rocky Linux with the Gnome desktop environment.
Note: The process shown will install Ansys Optics in the "opt" folder in the root directory.
/opt/lumerical/[[verpath]]
Requisites
- Ansys Optics 2021 R2 and newer.
- root or sudo access.
- Internet access to download/install dependencies.
- RHEL paid subscription for access to RedHat repositories.
- Install required libraries/packages.
Installation process
- Download the installation package. (registration required).
- Open terminal.
- Change directory to the download location (default, ~/Downloads) and unpack the installation files.
$ cd ~/Downloads
$ tar -xf Lumerical-[[ver]]-{version_number}.tar.gz - Change directory to the extracted folder and run the install script with sudo access or as root. This will check your system and install any missing dependencies.
- Follow the directions on the screen and enter desired options to complete the installation.
$ cd ~/Downloads/Lumerical-[[ver]]-{version_number}/
$ sudo sh ./install.sh
- Run the Ansys Optics Launcher.
/opt/lumerical/[[verpath]]/bin/launcher
- Select "I have a license from Ansys...".
- Choose "...configure my license only for Lumerical products" if will be using only Ansys Lumerical products, then "Go to the licensing setup" and configure Ansys Lumerical to obtain the license from your server.
- Otherwise, "configure my license for All Optics products" if you are using Ansys Lumerical together with either Speos or Zemax and configure your license as shown in this Knowledge Base.
- If not, you can request a 7-day evaluation license to evaluate our tools.
- If you are joining a workshop, request the license using your workshop ID/code.
Running Ansys Lumerical
- Open Terminal and run the Ansys Lumerical CAD from the Launcher using the "New Project" button to the right of the solver.
- Run the CAD directly from the Terminal (default install path shown):
/opt/lumerical/[[verpath]]/bin/fdtd-solutions &
/opt/lumerical/[[verpath]]/bin/mode-solutions &
/opt/lumerical/[[verpath]]/bin/interconnect &
/opt/lumerical/[[verpath]]/bin/device *