Install Symoro on Ubuntu 14.04

Introduction

Symoro+ is an open-source version written in Python of SYMORO (SYmbolic MOdeling of RObots software). Both are developped in IRCCyN - Ecole Centrale de Nantes.

Install Dependecies

To run Symoro you will need:

• python (>= 2.7, 3.* is not supported)
• sympy (== 0.7.3)
• numpy (>= 1.6.1)
• wxPython (>= 2.8.12)
• OpenGL (>= 3.0.1b2)

Install sympy

We need to install the version 0.7.3. We can download it from here. Download the version sympy-0.7.3.tar.gz, that works with Python 2.5, 2.6, and 2.7.

Now open a terminal, go to the folder where you downloaded sympy-0.7.3.tar and extract the files:

tar -xvzf sympy-0.7.3.tar.gz

cd sympy-0.7.3/

Now we can go in the folder and install it:

sudo python setup.py install

To execute all tests, run:

./setup.py test

Install numpy

Check if it already installed. Otherwise you can install it cloning from the repository or typing:

sudo apt-get install python-numpy

See here for more information.

Install wxPython

In order to install wxPython I used Anaconda.

Download it from here and once the download is finished:

bash <downloaded_file_name>

for example in my case was:

bash Anaconda-2.0.1-Linux-x86_64.sh

Now we can install wxPython:

conda install -c asmeurer wxpython

Check OpenGL

To know your OpenGL version in Ubuntu:

Install Glxinfo

sudo apt-get install mesa-utils

glxinfo | grep "OpenGL version"

You will see the version of OpenGL:

OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 10.1.3

Install Symoro

Now you can get and install Symoro. Follow the instruction you can find here.