Installing BEAGLE on Linux

To install BEAGLE on Linux-based operating systems you will need to build BEAGLE from source.

Installing from source

Step 1. Obtain prerequisites

You will need the following software to build BEAGLE:

• gcc
• make
• autoconf
• automake
• libtool
• subversion
• pkg-config

Additionally we recommended installing the following optional prerequisites:

• NVIDIA CUDA drivers and toolkit (if you want to use BEAGLE with an NVIDIA GPU)
• Java JDK (if you want to use BEAGLE with BEAST)

The prerequisite software should be fairly easy to install. On Ubuntu and other Debian Linux distributions all the requisite software (except for the NVIDIA CUDA tools) can be obtained via apt-get:

sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool subversion pkg-config openjdk-6-jdk

The NVIDIA CUDA drivers and toolkit can be downloaded from http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_get.html. They need to be installed for BEAGLE to use GPU acceleration.

Step 2. Build from the source repository

svn checkout http://beagle-lib.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ beagle-lib
cd beagle-lib
./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=$HOME
make install

Step 3. Set environment variables

If you followed the instructions above, then BEAGLE was installed to your home directory. You'll need to tell other programs to find the beagle library in your home directory by setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Or if using tcsh:

setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH $HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

That command will need to be run every time you log in, so it's best to put it in a login script such as .bashrc or .profile or .cshrc, etc.

If you plan to build other applications that depend on beagle, you'll also need be sure BEAGLE is in your pkg-config path:

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH

This too can be put in a login script.

Step 4. Verify that everything works

Finally, to verify that the installation worked and that your NVIDIA card is working go to the beagle-lib directory and type:

make check

This will run a suite of test programs using the BEAGLE library.

If you get no errors you are ready to use BEAGLE with compatible applications such as BEAST, MrBayes, and GARLI.

For instructions on how to use BEAGLE with BEAST please refer to Using BEAGLE with BEAST