Openstudio 2.1 on Linux (Ubuntu 16.04 based distros) no GUI?

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Thank you for your answer. Is there any guide/document to install OpenStudioApp and PAT on Linux? I would appreciate that to try myself.

Thanks again in advance.

I see this link only with instructions to build OpenStudio for Linux but it seams quite general:

https://github.com/NREL/OpenStudio/wi...

is there any extra info I'm missing? Thanks!

It appears that the App is not making its way into the debian packages. Here is an unofficial tar.gz binary package for 2.1.0. Can you see if this works for you? Note that this package should have the App but not PAT. We do not have a sense of how many users want to use the OpenStudio graphical applications on Linux, if you are a Linux user who is missing the graphical applications please let us know (this thread is a good place).

Thanks a lot Dan! I can confirm that the OpenstudioApp is working fine under Linux Mint 18.1 (Ubuntu 16.04 based).

In my case I tend to use Windows the less possible. I use it for Sketchup modeling but then I move to Linux. It would be great to have a complete Openstudio Linux build as it used to be, with OpenStudioApp + PAT, or at least a short reference to build it from a repo. So mine is a YES! on the request.

PS: Are there problems for PAT on Linux?

No technical barriers just additional time and resources to support pat on an another platform.

So are there instructions for adding PAT (OpenStudio 2.2.0) on Ubuntu 14.04? I switched over to Linux because I do a lot of Radiance simulations on OpenStudio and can take advantage of multiple cores.

@Determinant, that's great to hear you are using Radiance with OpenStudio so much that you want to take advantage of the MP features! Sorry PAT is not included in the unix version. You CAN still take advantage, but you would need to install OpenStudio Server on that Linux system. Then you could use PAT on your local machine (Windows, Mac, whatever) to make the project, and send it to your linux system running OS-server. Not for the faint of heart, but if interested, here are the istructions: https://github.com/NREL/OpenStudio-se...

@rpg777 If Radiance measures are done in the PAT, how does it handle the cores? Should I specify how many cores to use in the Radiance measure (say 2), then choose a complimentary number of runs in the PAT (say 3) so that I don't exceed the number of cores I have (6 out of 8)?

Reviewed the procedure. Yeah, installing OS Server seems like a bear to take on. Is there even any untested, suggested procedure for installing PAT on Ubuntu?

This would be a good request to add to https://openstudio.uservoice.com/ since we will soon be prioritizing work for FY18

Thanks, just did. @LucasL, @Yunyang Ye I've seen your posts that are similar to this request so please up vote here if you're interested in getting the PAT into Linux as well.

Done! Thank you guys for having the initiative.

Question, is the OpenStudioApp now included in the .deb package or still not? I kept working with the 2.1 version I downloaded on the first response, did not try new versions.