Installing the OpenQuake Engine nightly builds on Ubuntu Linux

The OpenQuake Engine nightly builds are available in the form of deb binary packages for the following Ubuntu releases:

Packages may work on Ubuntu derivatives (i.e. Mint Linux) and Debian, but this setup in not supported by GEM. See the FAQ.

The software and its libraries will be installed under /opt/openquake. Data will be stored under /var/lib/openquake.

Install packages from the OpenQuake nightly repository

The following commands add the nightly builds package repository:

sudo add-apt-repository -ry ppa:openquake/ppa
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:openquake-automatic-team/latest-master
sudo apt update

Then to install the OpenQuake Engine and its libraries first remove stable packages and then install nightly build packages

sudo apt remove --purge python-oq-.* python3-oq-.*
sudo apt install python3-oq-engine

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