STELLOPT Compilation on Debian

This page details how to compile the STELLOPT family of codes on Debian. In order to do so you will need to install GNU based compilers on your Linux machine. In principle this set of steps should work for any Linux based distribution which uses Debian based package management.

Installation Steps

1. Verify that your version of Debian is up to date. 2. Use apt-get to install your packages.

sudo apt-get install git
sudo apt-get install gcc
sudo apt-get install gfortran
sudo apt-get install openmpi-bin
sudo apt-get install libopenmpi-dev
sudo apt-get install libopenblas-dev
sudo apt-get install libscalapack-openmpi-dev
sudo apt-get install libnetcdf-dev
sudo apt-get install libnetcdff-dev
sudo apt-get install libhdf5-openmpi-dev
sudo apt-get install hdf5-tools
sudo apt-get install python3 pip
######### FOR MANGO #############
sudo apt-get install libnlopt-dev
sudo apt-get install libnlopt-cxx-dev
sudo apt-get install libeigen3-dev
sudo apt-get install libgsl-dev

3. Setup your environment variables

export MACHINE="debian"
export STELLOPT_PATH=<path to repo directory>

General Notes

Some of the package names may change over time.

The MANGO library is currently (12.03.2026) incompatible with the latest version of Petsc. The following makefile.system-dependent file modifications are suggested:

MANGO_HOST = debian
MANGO_PETSC_AVAILABLE = F
MANGO_HOPSPACK_AVAILABLE = F
MANGO_NLOPT_AVAILABLE = T
MANGO_GSL_AVAILABLE = T
MANGO_DAKOTA_AVAILABLE = F
MANGO_EIGEN_AVAILABLE = T
CC = mpicxx
FC = mpifort
CLINKER = $(CC)
FLINKER = $(FC)
EXTRA_C_COMPILE_FLAGS = -O2 
EXTRA_F_COMPILE_FLAGS = -ffree-line-length-none -O2
ifeq ($(MANGO_PETSC_AVAILABLE),T)
  PETSC_DIR=/usr/lib/petscdir
  PETSC_ARCH=petsc-real
  include ${PETSC_DIR}/${PETSC_ARCH}/lib/petsc/conf/petscvariables
  EXTRA_C_COMPILE_FLAGS += -I${PETSC_DIR}/${PETSC_ARCH}/include
  CLINKER = $(CC)
  FLINKER = $(CC)
else
  CLINKER = $(CC)
  FLINKER = $(FC)
endif
ifeq ($(MANGO_NLOPT_AVAILABLE),T)
  EXTRA_LINK_FLAGS += -lnlopt
endif
ifeq ($(MANGO_GSL_AVAILABLE),T)
  EXTRA_LINK_FLAGS += -lgsl -lgslcblas
endif
ifeq ($(MANGO_EIGEN_AVAILABLE),T)
  EXTRA_C_COMPILE_FLAGS += -I/usr/include/eigen3
endif
EXTRA_C_LINK_FLAGS = $(EXTRA_LINK_FLAGS) -lgfortran
EXTRA_F_LINK_FLAGS = $(EXTRA_C_LINK_FLAGS) -lstdc++