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 page shows the installation process for Ansys Optics simulation software on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and Desktop 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.
- Subscription to SUSE Linux for repository access.
- Internet access to download and install dependencies.
- Install required libraries/packages.
Installation process
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Download the Ansys Lumerical stand-alone installer in the Primary packages section in the Ansys Customer Portal > downloads page (registration required).
- Unpack the installation file,
- Change to the directory where the rpm files are stored.
- Install the rpm package using zypper.
- This will check for dependencies on your system and install them.
- Ignore the signature verification when prompted.
- Follow the instructions to complete the installation.
cd /location_of_installer/
tar -xf Lumerical-[[ver]]-{version_number}.tar.gz
cd Lumerical-[[ver]]-{version_number}/rpm_install_files
sudo zypper install Lumerical-[[ver]]-{version_number}.rpm
- Continue with the installation and enter "y".
- Then ignore the 'Signature verification message' by entering "i" when prompted.
Overall download size: 1.03 GiB. Already cached: 0 B. After the operation, additional 12.6 MiB will be used.
Continue? [y/n/v/...? shows all options] (y): y
Lumerical-2022R2-3-c05f04f.el7.x86_64.rpm: Package header is not signed!
Lumerical-2022R2-3-c05f04f.el7.x86_64 (Plain RPM files cache): Signature verification failed [6-File is unsigned]
Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i] (a): i
- Install the following dependencies,
- Create soft link,
sudo zypper install libjpeg62 libglut3 libpng12-0 libncurses5
sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libldap_r-2.4.so.2.10.9 /usr/lib64/libldap-2.4.so.2
- Open 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.
- Alternatively, 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 Optics
- Open Terminal and run the Ansys Optics CAD from the Launcher using the "New Project" button to the right of the solver/product.
- 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 &
See also
Custom installation or on shared filesystem in Linux