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The Gentoo sci-libs/cantera package is provided using a main portage tree. Additionally the app-doc/cantera-docs package is provided for offline Documentation API reference for Cantera package libraries.

Attention

The Matlab interface is not available from this archive. To install the Matlab interface on Gentoo, you must install it using conda or compile the source code.

The following interfaces and tools are installed by default:

  • C++ Libraries and header files for compiling your own programs that use Cantera.

  • YAML tools.

  • Python module for Python 3 (python USE flag with appropriate PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET; optional).

The following additional interface is available:

  • Fortran library and module files for compiling your own programs that use Cantera (fortran USE flag; optional)

More information about USE flags can be found in the Gentoo Handbook. To learn about per-package control of USE flags, please refer to the /etc/portage/package.use article.

To install the sci-libs/cantera and app-doc/cantera-docs packages:

emerge --ask cantera cantera-docs

Most likely, the latest versions of these packages and/or some of their dependencies still have unstable status in the Gentoo portage tree. In this case, you have to unmask (allow installation within stable system) them preliminarily using /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords.

If /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords is present in your system as file then (for 64-bit architecture) you could unmask sci-libs/cantera package by running the following command (as root):

echo "sci-libs/cantera ~amd64" >> /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords

Otherwise, if /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords is present in your system as a directory, run the following command (as root):

echo "sci-libs/cantera ~amd64" >> /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/cantera

Tip

If you plan on using Cantera from Python, you may also want to install IPython (dev-python/ipython, an advanced interactive Python interpreter) and Matplotlib (dev-python/matplotlib, a plotting library). Matplotlib is required to run some of the Python examples. These packages can be installed with:

emerge --ask ipython matplotlib
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