Download the source code using git

LPMD is built from three main repositories:

liblpmd
lpmd
plugins

Create a directory called “LPMD” to download (clone) each of these three main packages that build LPMD:

mkdir LPMD; cd LPMD

git clone https://gitarra.cl/lpmd/liblpmd.git

git clone https://gitarra.cl/lpmd/lpmd.git

git clone https://gitarra.cl/lpmd/plugins.git

Alternative download from GitHub (deprecated)

If downloads from gitarra do not work, try our deprecated version from GitHub:

git clone -b 2.0 --single-branch http://github.com/lpmd/liblpmd liblpmd
git clone -b 0.6 --single-branch http://github.com/lpmd/plugins plugins
git clone -b 0.6 --single-branch http://github.com/lpmd/lpmd lpmd
git clone http://github.com/lpmd/lpvisual lpvisual
git clone http://github.com/lpmd/manual manual

While liblpmd, plugins, and lpmd are mandatory for the installation, the manual repository is optional.

The OpenGL-based molecular dynamics visualizer we developed (lpvisual) is included in the plugins package in gitarra, but must be downloaded separately if you use GitHub (see above). As the rest of our code, the visualizer is free and open-source.

You can try the last version (development version) by removing the flags “-b X.Y –single-branch” when cloning. The development version is written python 3 and C++ source code, and provides MPI library support. However, this version does not have many plugins working.

Once you download each repository, you can proceed as is specified in the installation section:

How to install