Getting Started

Installation

To install the IDAES PSE framework, follow the set of instructions below that are appropriate for your needs and operating system. If you get stuck, please contact idaes-support@idaes.org.

After installing and testing IDAES, it is strongly recommended to do the IDAES tutorials located on the examples online documentation page.

If you expect to develop custom models, we recommend following the advanced user installation.

The OS specific instructions provide information about optionally installing Miniconda. If you already have a Python installation you prefer, you can skip the Miniconda install section.

Note

IDAES supports Python 3.6 and above.

System

Section

Linux

Linux

Windows

Windows

Mac OSX

Mac/OSX

Generic

Generic Install

Warning

If you are using Python for other complex projects, you may want to consider using environments of some sort to avoid conflicting dependencies. There are several good options including conda environments if you use Anaconda.

Windows

Install Miniconda (optional)

  1. Download: https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Windows-x86_64.exe

  2. Install anaconda from the downloaded file in (1).

  3. Open the Anaconda Prompt (Start -> “Anaconda Prompt”).

  4. In the Anaconda Prompt, follow the Generic Install instructions.

Linux

Install Miniconda (optional)

  1. Download: https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-Linux-x86_64.sh

  2. Open a terminal window

  3. Run the script you downloaded in (1).

Install Dependencies

  1. The IPOPT solver depends on the GNU FORTRAN, GOMP, Blas, and Lapack libraries, If these libraries are not already installed on your Linux system, you or your system administrator can use the sample commands below to install them. If you have a Linux distribution that is not listed, IPOPT should still work, but the commands to install the required libraries may differ. If these libraries are already installed, you can skip this and proceed with the next step.

    Note

    Depending on your distribution, you may need to prepend sudo to these commands or switch to the “root” user.

    apt-get (Current Ubuntu based distributions):

    sudo apt-get install libgfortran4 libgomp1 liblapack3 libblas3
    

    yum (Current RedHat based distributions, including CentOS):

    yum install lapack blas libgfortran libgomp
    

Complete Generic Install

Follow the Generic Install instructions.

Mac/OSX

Install Miniconda (optional)

  1. Download: https://repo.anaconda.com/miniconda/Miniconda3-latest-MacOSX-x86_64.sh

  2. For the next steps, open a terminal window

  3. Run the script you downloaded in (1).

Complete Generic Install

Follow the Generic Install instructions.

Generic Install

The remaining steps performed in either the Linux or OSX Terminal or Powershell. If you installed Miniconda on Windows use the Anaconda Prompt or Anaconda Powershell Prompt. Regardless of OS and shell, the following steps are the same.

Install IDAES

  1. Install IDAES with pip by one of the following methods

  1. To get the latest release:

    pip install idaes-pse
    
  2. To get a specific release, for example 1.7:

    pip install idaes-pse==1.7
    
  3. To get the latest development main branch:

    pip install git+https://github.com/idaes/idaes-pse
    
  4. To get a specific fork or branch, for example myfork (of idaes-pse) and mybranch:

    pip install git+https://github.com/myfork/idaes-pse@mybranch
    
  1. Run the idaes get-extensions command to install the compiled binaries:

    idaes get-extensions
    

Warning

The IDAES binary extensions are not yet supported on Mac/OSX.

As a fallback (assuming you are using a conda env) you can install the generic ipopt solver with the command conda install -c conda-forge ipopt though this will not have all the features of our extensions package.

  1. Run the idaes get-examples command to download and install the example files:

    idaes get-examples
    

By default this will install in a folder “examples” in the current directory. The command has many options, but an important one is –dir, which specifies the folder in which to install.

for Mac and Linux users this would look like:

idaes get-examples --dir ~/idaes/examples

or, for Windows users, it would look like:

idaes get-examples --dir C:\Users\MyName\IDAES\Examples

Refer to the full idaes get-examples command documentation for more information.

  1. Run tests:

    pytest --pyargs idaes -W ignore
    
  2. You should see the tests run and all should pass to ensure the installation worked. You may see some “Error” level log messages, but they are okay, and produced by tests for error handling. The number of tests that failed and succeeded is reported at the end of the pytest output. You can report problems on the Github issues page (Please try to be specific about the command and the offending output.)

Optional Dependencies

Some tools in IDAES may require additional dependencies. Instructions for installing these dependencies are located here.

Updating an existing installation

When a new version is released, an IDAES installation can be updated without having to remove and reinstall it from scratch.

The following steps describe how to upgrade an existing installation in-place, assuming that the installation was done using one of the methods described earlier in this section.

Warning

If IDAES was installed in a dedicated environment (e.g. a Conda environment, or Python virtual environment), activate the environment before running any of these commands.

  1. Open a terminal and verify the currently installed version of IDAES:

    idaes --version
    
  2. Install the upgraded version of the idaes-pse package using pip install:

    pip install --upgrade idaes-pse
    

If a newer version of the idaes-pse package is available, the currently installed version will be removed and replaced by the newest available version. Check again the IDAES version to verify that the upgrade was successful:

idaes --version
  1. Run the idaes get-extension command to install compiled binaries compatible with the newly upgraded IDAES version:

    idaes get-extensions
    
  2. Finally, use the idaes get-examples command to install the most recent version of the IDAES examples compatible with the upgraded IDAES version.

    Warning

    If the examples target installation directory is not empty, its contents, including examples installed with a previous IDAES version and other files, will be overwritten without warning. To avoid losing data, it is strongly recommended that you make a backup copy of any existing examples directory before proceeding.

After creating a backup copy of the existing examples directory, run:

idaes get-examples