Linux Installation (Autodesk Nastran only)

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.

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:

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: