Installation fails under Linux Debian

[Zeno Brighenti]

Hi to everyone,

Under Linux Debian 10 Buster installation of Canter through Pip fails. In the attached file you can see my bash during the whole operation (i followed step by step the website guide).

Any help? Thank you very much!

[Bryan Weber]

Hi Zeno,

Welcome to Cantera! A few notes from that output (thank you for including the text and not a screenshot, because I can copy-paste!)...

1. The system pip is quite out-of-date, and this is the one that gets installed into the venv (thank you for using a venv!). Although not mentioned on the instructions, I'd suggest updating pip in the venv:

zeno@debian:~$ python3 -m venv ct-env && source ct-env/bin/activate

>>>>>>> python3 -m pip install -U pip <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

(ct-env) zeno@debian:~$ python3 -m pip install cantera

2. The error message is shown in the output: 

 ValueError: Could not find Boost headers. Please set an environment variable called BOOST_INCLUDE that contains the path to the Boost headers.

You need to install Boost. You can do this a few ways, the easiest (although consuming the most disk space) is to install from apt:

sudo apt install libboost-all-dev

That should work, but if it doesn't, export an environment variable called BOOST_INCLUDE that points to the location of the headers:

BOOST_INCLUDE=/usr/include/boost python3 -m pip install cantera

Hope that helps!

Bryan