Update2020: Abaqus2020HF5 on Ubuntu20.04/Fedora32 without container

In September 2020 Abaqus released a HotFix5: Abaqus 2020 HF5 (2020 FP.CFA.2038) for Abaqus 2020 that solves the terminating issue, it can be downloaded from from https://www.3ds.com/support/download/ (login required).

The file needed should be 2020.FP.CFA.2038.Part_SIMULIA_EstPrd.Linux64.tar with 2GB.

For more infos check willfurnass#5 (comment)

Meantime Abaqus2021.HF5 got released. Also for this Relase the HotFix 5(6.21-6) should be installed.

Singularity container for Abaqus on Ubuntu20.04/Fedora32

Abaqus works well under CentOS but is much less likely to work well under a bleeding edge distro like Arch/Ubuntu/Fedora, so let's run Abaqus within a Singularity container, setting things up in such a way that we can run Abaqus CAE with mesa.

install Singularity 3.6.2 (or newer)

Make sure you have Singularity 3.6.2 (or newer) installed. (On newer OS you might need a newer singularity-version.) A installguide can be found at https://github.com/hpcng/singularity/blob/master/INSTALL.md

if [ -f "/etc/debian_version" ]; then
 sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y build-essential libssl-dev uuid-dev libgpgme11-dev squashfs-tools libseccomp-dev wget pkg-config git cryptsetup
fi
if [ "$(grep -Ei 'fedora|redhat' /etc/*release)" ]; then
 sudo yum groupinstall -y 'Development Tools'
 sudo yum install -y golang libseccomp-devel squashfs-tools cryptsetup squashfs-tools wget pkg-config git gcc-go golang-bin ksh
fi
rm -r /usr/local/go
export VERSION=1.15.1 #https://golang.org/doc/install
export OS=linux ARCH=amd64  # change this as you need
wget -O /tmp/go${VERSION}.${OS}-${ARCH}.tar.gz https://dl.google.com/go/go${VERSION}.${OS}-${ARCH}.tar.gz
mkdir -p /usr/local
sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf /tmp/go${VERSION}.${OS}-${ARCH}.tar.gz
echo 'export PATH=/usr/local/go/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc
export VERSION=3.6.2 && # adjust this as necessary
tar -xzf singularity-${VERSION}.tar.gz
cd singularity/
./mconfig &&     make -C ./builddir &&     sudo make -C ./builddir install
which singularity
singularity --version
cd ..

Building the singularity image

mkdir -p ~/imgs/sing
rm -f ~/imgs/sing/abaqus-centos-7.img
git clone https://github.com/JoKalliauer/abaqus-centos-7-singularity.git
cd ./abaqus-centos-7-singularity
sudo singularity build ~/imgs/sing/abaqus-centos-7.img ./abaqus-centos-7.def 

Abaqus

There are several ways to install Abaqus

• copy it from any other computer (e.g. Cent-OS)
• install it via the container above
• install it directly in Ubuntu/Fedora

If you choose the last option you need to do some manipulations

#cd (change directory) to the downloaded/DVD-install-files make shure you have write permissions

# "Linux.sh" checks if you have a compatible version, the script schould use DSY_OS_Release="CentOS"
tmp=$(find . -name "Linux.sh") #alternative you can use tmp=$(locate Linux.sh)
var1=$(echo $tmp | cut -f1 -d" ");
var2=$(echo $tmp | cut -f2 -d" ");
var3=$(echo $tmp | cut -f3 -d" ");
var4=$(echo $tmp | cut -f4 -d" ");
var5=$(echo $tmp | cut -f5 -d" ");
var6=$(echo $tmp | cut -f6 -d" ");
var7=$(echo $tmp | cut -f7 -d" ");
var8=$(echo $tmp | cut -f8 -d" ");
var9=$(echo $tmp | cut -f9 -d" ");
var0=$(echo $tmp | cut -f10 -d" ");
varB=$(echo $tmp | cut -f11 -d" ");
varC=$(echo $tmp | cut -f12 -d" ");
varD=$(echo $tmp | cut -f13 -d" ");
varE=$(echo $tmp | cut -f14 -d" ");

#might need sudo, depening on the owner
sed -ri "s/DSY_OS_Release=\`[-[:alnum:] _\|\/\']+\`/DSY_OS_Release=\"CentOS\"/" $var1
sed -ri "s/DSY_OS_Release=\`[-[:alnum:] _\|\/\']+\`/DSY_OS_Release=\"CentOS\"/" $var2
sed -ri "s/DSY_OS_Release=\`[-[:alnum:] _\|\/\']+\`/DSY_OS_Release=\"CentOS\"/" $var3
sed -ri "s/DSY_OS_Release=\`[-[:alnum:] _\|\/\']+\`/DSY_OS_Release=\"CentOS\"/" $var4
sed -ri "s/DSY_OS_Release=\`[-[:alnum:] _\|\/\']+\`/DSY_OS_Release=\"CentOS\"/" $var5
sed -ri "s/DSY_OS_Release=\`[-[:alnum:] _\|\/\']+\`/DSY_OS_Release=\"CentOS\"/" $var6
sed -ri "s/DSY_OS_Release=\`[-[:alnum:] _\|\/\']+\`/DSY_OS_Release=\"CentOS\"/" $var7
sed -ri "s/DSY_OS_Release=\`[-[:alnum:] _\|\/\']+\`/DSY_OS_Release=\"CentOS\"/" $var8
sed -ri "s/DSY_OS_Release=\`[-[:alnum:] _\|\/\']+\`/DSY_OS_Release=\"CentOS\"/" $var9
sed -ri "s/DSY_OS_Release=\`[-[:alnum:] _\|\/\']+\`/DSY_OS_Release=\"CentOS\"/" $var0
sed -ri "s/DSY_OS_Release=\`[-[:alnum:] _\|\/\']+\`/DSY_OS_Release=\"CentOS\"/" $varB
sed -ri "s/DSY_OS_Release=\`[-[:alnum:] _\|\/\']+\`/DSY_OS_Release=\"CentOS\"/" $varC
sed -ri "s/DSY_OS_Release=\`[-[:alnum:] _\|\/\']+\`/DSY_OS_Release=\"CentOS\"/" $varD
sed -ri "s/DSY_OS_Release=\`[-[:alnum:] _\|\/\']+\`/DSY_OS_Release=\"CentOS\"/" $varE


# sometimes you encouter problmes using the unzip of Abaqus, use unzip of the system
tmp2=$(find . -name "unzip")
file1=$(echo $tmp2 | cut -f1 -d" ");
file2=$(echo $tmp2 | cut -f2 -d" ");
file3=$(echo $tmp2 | cut -f3 -d" ");
file4=$(echo $tmp2 | cut -f4 -d" ");
file5=$(echo $tmp2 | cut -f5 -d" ");

mv $file1 ${file1}.backup
mv $file2 ${file2}.backup
mv $file3 ${file3}.backup
mv $file4 ${file4}.backup
mv $file5 ${file5}.backup

# which unzip should return /usr/bin/unzip 
ln -s $file1 /usr/bin/unzip
ln -s $file2 /usr/bin/unzip
ln -s $file3 /usr/bin/unzip
ln -s $file4 /usr/bin/unzip
ln -s $file5 /usr/bin/unzip


export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 #change to english, since english ist the most stable version
export DSY_Skip_CheckPrereq=1 #Added to avoid prerequisite check
export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1 #to avoid transparent-problems in Abaqus CAE
export run_mode=INTERACTIVE #if you run a problem you should see in the terminal if it is finished

more details can be found at http://coquake.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Abaqus18_on_Ubuntu18.04LTS.pdf

after that search for "StartTUI.sh" (alternativ you could use the grafical interface "StartGUI.sh") and start the script, and follow the requested steps.

Running the container

Assuming Abaqus is installed at /opt/abaqus:

To run Abaqus CAE without hardware-accelerated graphics:

singularity exec --bind /opt/abaqus ~/imgs/sing/abaqus-centos-7.img /opt/abaqus/CAE/2019/linux_a64/code/bin/ABQLauncher cae -mesa

To run Abaqus CAE with hardware-accelerated graphics: (remove the -mesa, not working on my pc)

singularity exec --bind /opt/abaqus ~/imgs/sing/abaqus-centos-7.img /opt/abaqus/CAE/2019/linux_a64/code/bin/ABQLauncher cae

Remove/Uninistall

Remove/Uninstall Abaqus

Generally there is no need to remove old Abaqus-Versions, except you want to save space.

If you copied Abaqus, remove it. If you installed it you can uninstall it using "Uninstall.sh"

Remove Go

If you do not remove old version, newer versions won't work properly, so removing old versions seems to be necessary.

rm -r /usr/local/go

Remove Singulartity

If you do not remove old version, it might happen that the old version might still be the default version.

sudo rm -rf \
     /usr/local/libexec/singularity \
     /usr/local/var/singularity \
     /usr/local/etc/singularity \
     /usr/local/bin/singularity \
     /usr/local/bin/run-singularity \
     /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/singularity

Remove the Container

Generally there is no need to remove old containers, except you want to save space (only 157 MB).

rm ~/imgs/sing/abaqus-centos-7.img