Installing BioDynaMo on Ubuntu 22.04 (Dual-Boot HP Windows Laptop)

[Himanshu Badoni]

I ran into issues installing BioDynaMo on Ubuntu 22.04 while dual-booting an HP Windows laptop. The default installation checks fail because it only officially lists Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04 as supported, even though the guide states Ubuntu 22.04 works.

Here’s how to fix it without downgrading your OS:

Stavros portokalidis from Cern helped out and said the following (I never tried out Option 2 as option 1 worked out for me):

To Solve this issue:

There is no need to downgrade to Ubuntu 20.04. BioDynaMo can be installed on Ubuntu 22.04, but the issue arises because the default installation command installs the latest official release, which does not support Ubuntu 22.04.

You have two reliable options:

Option 1: Install the latest development version via curl

export BDM_INSTALL=master

curl https://biodynamo.github.io/install | bash

Option 2: Install directly from GitHub

git clone https://github.com/BioDynaMo/biodynamo.git

cd biodynamo

./prerequisites.sh all

mkdir build && cd build

cmake .. && make -j$(nproc)

source ./bin/thisbdm.sh