Download Installer

Click here for instructions on downloading the SimVascular installer.

Install SimVascular

Installing SimVascular on Ubuntu 18.04 & 20.04. Download the SimVascular Ubuntu installer from SimTK.

Double-click on the downloaded installation (.deb) file.

SimVascular is installed in /usr/local/sv/simvascular/yyyy-mm-dd, where yyyy-mm-dd represents the SimVascular release date (e.g. 2018-11-25). To launch SimVascular:

Go to Unity Dash and search for "SimVascular" Click the SimVascular icon. Setup SimVascular to run from a terminal. (optional)

sudo bash /usr/local/sv/simvascular/yyyy-mm-dd/setup-symlinks.sh

This creates a script called 'simvascular' in /usr/local/bin/ that can be executed from the command line.

Installing SimVascular on CentOS 7 Download the SimVascular CentOS installer from SimTK.

The intaller is a .tar.gz file that is manually installed. Create a /usr/local/package directory if it does not already exist.

% su root

% cd /usr/local

% mkdir package Untar the contents of the installer .tar.gz file to the SimVascular application directory.

% tar xzvf ~/Downloads/SimVascular-centos7-x64.Nov.25-2018.tar.gz

SimVascular is installed in /usr/local/package/simvascular/2018-11-25 Execute a shell script to setup SimVascular to run from the command line.

% /usr/local/package/simvascular/2018-11-25/post-install.sh

    This creates a 'simvascular' script file in /usr/local/bin.

Launch SimVascular

% simvascular

Note SimVascular may fail to launch if certain shared libraries are missing from your computer. Missing libraries can be installed using "sudo apt-get install [missing lib name]". The following commands can be used to install some libraries commonly missing from standard Ubuntu distributions:

sudo apt-get install libgstreamer0.10-0
sudo apt-get install libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev
sudo apt-get install libxss
sudo apt-get install libxmu-dev (for OpenCASCADE)
sudo apt-get install libxi-dev  (for OpenCASCADE)