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E-Cell 3 Downloads

Download and installation instruction of E-Cell System Version 3.

All the source code from E-Cell project is now available on https://github.com/ecell. You will also find the source code of the E-Cell 3 project under the same organization.

The development of E-Cell now continues on GitHub. The previous Subversion repository will be abandoned. Still you can find some old codes on the sourceforge site (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ecell/).

Note

It seems http://downloads.e-cell.org has not been working for quite a long time. Users can still download source code from https://github.com/ecell/ecell3 page. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Developpers: Please delete this note when the binary package download site gets available again

yuri; 2012-03-28

Pre-built Packages

Pre-built (binary) packages are available for the following distributions:

  • Debian (Lenny)
  • Ubuntu (Jaunty Jackalope / Karmic Koala / Lucid Lynx)
  • Fedora Core (7, 8)
  • CentOS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (4, 5)

The build is divided into 5 packages:

  • ecell3 (CLI tools and utilities)
  • ecell3-dev / ecell3-devel (necessary for DM developing)
  • ecell3-session-monitor (GUI session monitor)
  • ecell3-model-editor (GUI model editor)
  • ecell3-tool-launcher (GUI compiler launcher)

Packages for these distributions are placed at downloads.e-cell.org.

Note that the repositories contain several packages of other projects (e.g. libSBML) for convenience. See "Notes for third-party package distribution" for detail

You can browse the available packages through the very simple indexer from http://downloads.e-cell.org/ .

Instruction

Debian / Ubuntu (apt and dpkg based)

Append any one of the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list.

  • Debian: Lenny

    deb http://downloads.e-cell.org/apt/lenny/ lenny contrib

  • Debian: Squeeze

    deb http://downloads.e-cell.org/apt/squeeze/ squeeze contrib

  • Ubuntu: Karmic Koala (9.10)

    deb http://downloads.e-cell.org/apt/karmic/ karmic contrib

  • Ubuntu: Lucid Lynx (10.04)

    deb http://downloads.e-cell.org/apt/lucid/ lucid contrib

  • Ubuntu: Maverick Meerkat (10.10)

    deb http://downloads.e-cell.org/apt/maverick/ maverick contrib

  • Ubuntu: Natty Narwhal (11.04)

    deb http://downloads.e-cell.org/apt/natty/ natty contrib

Next, run apt-get update to update the local copies of package databases.

Finally, just type apt-get install ecell3 to see everything gets installed without difficulties anymore :)

Fedora Core / Cent OS (yum and rpm based)

Save any one of the following content to /etc/yum.repos.d/ecell.repo .

  • CentOS: Version 4, 5

    # Name: E-Cell RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise 4, 5
# URL: http://downloads.e-cell.org/
[ecell]
name = Red Hat Enterprise $releasever - E-Cell
baseurl = http://downloads.e-cell.org/yum/el$releasever/$basearch
enabled = 1
protect = 0
gpgcheck = 0

And then type yum install ecell3 to get your E-Cell installation from the repository.

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