How to download and install MPICH2

• Download the tarball of the software from http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich2/. Unpack it somewhere, say in /usr/local/src with the command:

  cd /usr/local/src
  tar xzvf mpich2-xyz.tar.gz
  

• Assuming that you have Sun Java installed in /usr/local/java, I recommend the following steps tp build MPICH2.

  mkdir /usr/local/src/mpich2
  ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mpich2 --enable-mpe --enable-cxx  \
  --enable-romio --with-java-home=/usr/local/java/jre 2>&1 | tee configure.log
  make 2>&1 | tee make.log
  make install 2>&1 | tee install.log
  

• For more details on installation, please read the instructions in the README file in the MPICH2 source.

• Add /usr/local/mpich2/share/man in the /etc/man.config file to enable viewing man pages in KDE Konqueror.