General Information
These topics guide you through the setup of Autodesk Nastran on Linux OS.
Installation Summary provides a quick guide to the commands required to install Autodesk Nastran on your computer.
- You can download the Linux installer in a TAR file from
Autodesk Nastran Linux Installer Page.
- The installer supports both superuser installation to system locations and a non-superuser installation to a location where you have write privilege to.
- The installation supports RPM package installation and additionally supports compressed folder installation on non-RPM systems, or where the installation is not into a system location.
- We recommend using either Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS Linux distributions. The minimum release supported in those distributions is version 6.6. Earlier releases are not supported.
- It is possible to install on Linux distributions that are not Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS Linux. In these cases, the versions of particular core components must be equal to or greater than those provided on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6. Details of this are discussed in the
System Requirements.
This Linux version is designed to be installed and executed from a system terminal. No graphical interfaces are included with this installation and it is anticipated that setup and post-processing of the computational models will be accomplished with external software. Potentially, this will be accomplished on systems running alternate operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows. This version is designed to be submitted to queues on Linux clusters and run on nodes which may not have attached graphics terminals.
A complete installation requires two items:
- A package containing all the necessary files, which will have a file name similar to (but may not be exactly)
Autodesk_Nastran_2021.0.0.F-14.0.0.203_Linux_64bit.tar.
- Licensing information. This will be the internet name of your Autodesk Nastran license server, either in the form of a numerical IP address, or machine.domain.com.
This package does not provide an Autodesk License server, which is provided independently by your reseller. It can be provided for a number of different operating systems.
Conventions
The following conventions will be used to denote specific sections of text:
- Where a command should be entered into a system terminal, the prompt will be denoted as a “>” and the command to be entered enclosed in a shaded box, for example:
> ls-lrt
- <Italicized text> indicates text that requires replacing with a user option.