Can someone please provide me the steps for openstudio installation in Ubuntu 16.04 ?

Try to install it. Rather than just double clicking it, use sudo dpkg -i OpenStudio-xxxx.deb (the xxxx portion will depend on which release you selected, eg OpenStudio-2.4.0.978a4d7e98-Linux.deb for the current latest), as it will be more verbose as far as dependency issues.

I would bet that in 99% of the cases you're going to run into dependencies issues: there are dependencies expected such as libwxgtk3.0-0 but you can only find libwxgtk3.0-0v5 or libwxgtk3.0-dev in official sources for Xenial (16.04).

The way I resolved this issue is to download the packages from Trusty (14.04): https://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package..., which also needed https://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package....

So, to recap, do it in this order: Install libwxbase3.0-0, then libwxgtk3.0-0, then OpenStudio deb package.

EDIT:

I think the Pull Request I just made, #3133, will fix this dependency issue (worked on my machine at least).

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Julien Marrec

answered 2017-12-28 05:53:18 -0600, updated 2018-05-17 09:16:29 -0600

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When I try to install "libwxbase3.0-0" it says "dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libwxbase3.0-0:amd64: libwxbase3.0-0v5:amd64 (3.0.2+dfsg-1.3ubuntu0.1) breaks libwxbase3.0-0 and is installed"

So please help me resolve this

Siv (2017-12-28 22:15:02 -0600) edit

The erorr message is quite clear, you already have libwxbase-3.0-0v5 installed... Try sudo apt remove libwxbase

Julien Marrec (2017-12-31 07:15:56 -0600) edit

Thank you, I have not checked it because I have started to use it in windows operating system

Siv (2018-05-17 23:02:34 -0600) edit

Ok, glad you found something that works. (For the record, I fixed this dependency problem recently, so if you try the latest openstudio version, it should install without any problems on Ubuntu)

Julien Marrec (2018-07-24 04:00:00 -0600) edit

I was wondering whether the geometry tab works in your xenial built? In the 3D view, it just shows error

scrox (2019-05-30 04:38:56 -0600) edit

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I've try to install following Julien's answer but i can't solve package dependencies, so i've decided to install from Sources last OpenStudio 2.4.0 version into Ubuntu 16.04 64 bits operating system ok :), following this steps:

Download last Source Code .zip or .tar.gz compressed file from https://github.com/NREL/OpenStudio/releases
Extract OpenStudio compressed file into your sources directory
If .zip: unzip file.zip -d dest_folder or if .tar.gz: tar xf file.tar.gz -C dest_folder
sudo apt-get install dpkg-dev git cmake-curses-gui cmake-gui libssl-dev libxt-dev libncurses5-dev libgl1-mesa-dev autoconf libexpat1-dev libpng12-dev libfreetype6-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libglib2.0-dev libfontconfig1-dev libxi-dev libxrender-dev libgeographiclib-dev chrpath
Install cmake from source:
wget https://cmake.org/files/v3.7/cmake-3....
tar -xzf cmake-3.7.1.tar.gz
cd cmake-3.7.1/
./configure
make
sudo make install
(check that your cmake is 3.7.1)
cmake --version
sudo apt-get install autotools autotools-dev automake
mkdir build
cd build
ccmake ../openstudiocore
press c to configure, and then press g to generate
make GenerateIddFactory
make GenerateIddFactoryRun
(still inside build directory)
make
(process run during a long time: hours)
sudo make install
OpenStudio installed from sources ok :)
To Get EnergyPlus version:
energyplus --version
openstudio energyplus_version
To Run OpenStudioApp application:
OpenStudioApp