Installing Salome Meca on Windows 11 using WSL2
- Philip Dai
- May 31
- 2 min read
References:
Installing official Salome Meca on Windows 10/11 using WSL2
Salome Meca 2024.1 on WSL - Ready to use distribution
My attempt is summarized below:
Installation steps:
Download the following WSL2 distribution file (smeca-2024.1-wsl2-verified.tar.gz)
Create a folder in C:\smeca, then import the WSL machine in this location
PS C:\temp\Code_Aster_Scratch> wsl --set-default-version 2
For information on key differences with WSL 2 please visit https://aka.ms/wsl2
The operation completed successfully.
PS C:\smeca> wsl --import smeca-2024 C:\smeca C:\Downloads\smeca-2024.1-wsl2-verified.tar.gz
The operation completed successfully. Once done, a virtual disk should be created in C:\smeca. Can check distributions with the following command:
PS C:\smeca> wsl --list
Windows Subsystem for Linux Distributions:
Ubuntu-20.04 (Default)
smeca-2024
Ubuntu-24.04
PS C:\smeca> wsl -d smeca-2024
This runs the WSL distribution using the command. You should see a welcome message, WSL should log in automatically as the default user & password.
We suggest that you change the default password as soon as possible for security reasons.
Please note that this distribution is shipped with a working (official) installation of
Salome Meca 2024.1.0 LGPL release. The following shortcuts are ready to be used to
leverage the different tools included with Salome Meca:
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| salome_meca : runs the main GUI if no arguments are provided, can be used to run a |
| salome shell or start a session in the background |
| run_aster : runs the entry point to the new pythonic code_aster library and can |
| be used as an alternative to the legacy as_run to execute export files |
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| astk : runs the legacy (older) interface to code_aster |
| as_run : runs the legacy (older) command line interface to code_aster |
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Note that this message is shown only on the first 5 logins, but can be recalled using the
command : welcome
Salome Meca / code_aster development team from EDF R&D Saclay (January 2025)
Run salome_meca:
To run salome_meca, just type
smeca-user@DESKTOP:/mnt/c/smeca$ salome_meca
Other tools that are available (and checked during beta testing) from the command line (aliases are already created) :
run_aster
as_run
astk
If you get a "clicking" issue with the salome main window, press F11 to go to fullscreen and then F11 again to exit full screen. This seems to fix the issue.
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ParseXmlFiles Warning, two resources with the same name were found, taking the first declaration : localhost
The Salome Meca window opens:
This installation approach doesn't have limitations related to singularity containers.
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