1.Visit the GAMESS homepage and request a copy of the “64 bit x86_64 under Linux using gnu compilers” source code

2.Download the source code file, gamess-current.tar.gz, using the username “source” and the password in the email message that you received.

My UOS example:

3.Make sure you have csh and gfortran and patch installed

sudo yum install csh gcc-gfortran  #for CentOS and Amazon Linux
sudo yum install patch  #for CentOS and Amazon Linux

or

sudo apt-get install csh gfortran  #for Debian, Ubuntu, UOS
sudo apt-get install patch  #for Debian, Ubuntu, UOS​

My UOS example:

4.Uncompress the archive

cd ~
tar xzf ~/Downloads/gamess-current.tar.gz

My UOS example:

5.Install math libraries MKL ( recommendation , not required, it depends on the choice of step 6 )

•  Download the MKL source file and uncompress

cd ~/Downloads/
curl -O https://registrationcenter-download.intel.com/akdlm/irc_nas/tec/16917/l_mkl_2020.4.304_online.tgz
tar vfx  l_mkl_2020.4.304_online.tgz 

My UOS example:

• Install MKL with GUI

cd l_mkl_2020.4.304_online/
./install_GUI.sh

My UOS example:

• Notice:  the default install path is $HOME/intel ,in my example  the path is /home/ditan/intel  Remeber the path,we will use it in step 6.
• With the GUI click the “Next” ->”Next->”Install ” ,wait till the installation complete.(ps.This will take 5 minitues or more, keep the Internet connected)

6.Configure the GAMESS installation

cd ~/gamess
./config

• Follow the on screen prompts
• Set the machine type to linux64
• Leave the gamess installation directory as the default
• Leave the gamess build location as the default
• Leave the gamess version number as 00
• Enter “gfortran” for your choice of FORTRAN
• Follow the onscreen instructions to obtain the gfortran version
• If you have “MKL” math libraries installed, enter “MKL” ,otherwiser enter “none”
• Use “sockets” rather than MPI
• Answer “no” to LibXC interface, CCT3 & CCSD3A methods, and LIBCCHEM options

 My UOS example:

(1) please enter your target machine name: linux64

(2)GAMESS directory? [/home/ditan/gamess] Press Enter 

(3)GAMESS build directory? [/home/ditan/gamess] Press Enter 

(4)Version? [00] Press Enter 

(5)Please enter your choice of FORTRAN: gfortran

(6)Please enter only the first decimal place, such as 4.9: 8.3

To check the version of gfortran use commands below:

fortran -v

(7)hit to continue to the math library setup.Press Enter

(8)Enter your choice of ‘mkl’ or ‘atlas’ or ‘acml’ or ‘libflame’ or ‘openblas’ or ‘pgiblas’ or ‘armpl’ or ‘none’: mkl

(9)MKL pathname? /home/ditan/intel/mkl                            # it depends on step 5  path setting.

(10)MKL version (or ‘proceed’)? proceed

(11)please hit to set up your network for Linux clusters.Press Enter

(12)communication library (‘serial’,’sockets’ or ‘mpi’ or ‘mixed’)? sockets

(13)Optional: Build LibXC interface?  (yes/no): no

(14)Optional: Build Michigan State University CCT3 & CCSD3A methods? (yes/no): no

(15)Do you want to try LIBCCHEM? (yes/no): no

(16)the finnal outputs in my exmale:

Your configuration for GAMESS compilation is now in
/home/ditan/gamess/install.info
Now, please follow the directions in
/home/ditan/gamess/machines/readme.unix

7.Compile ddi

cd ~/gamess
make ddi

 My UOS example:

8.Compile modules

cd ~/gamess
make modules

cd ~/gamess
make -j 4          #The "-j" specifies the number of jobs (commands) to run, will save your time on compiling.

9.Update the rungms  script

set SCR=/scr1/$USER
set USERSCR=~/gamess-devv
set GMSPATH=~/gamess-devv

 Edit the following lines to read as follows

gedit ~/gamess/rungms

vim ~/gamess/rungms

cd ~/gamess
sed -i 's/\/scr1\/$USER/\/tmp/' ./rungms
sed -i 's/USERSCR\=\~\/gamess-devv/USERSCR\=\/tmp/' ./rungms
sed -i 's/GMSPATH\=\~\/gamess-devv/GMSPATH\=\~\/gamess/' ./rungms

10.Update the runall  script,repalce the first the “si.msg.chem.iastate.edu” with your real hostname

$ hostname

sed -i "s/si.msg.chem.iastate.edu/$HOSTNAME/" ~/gamess/runall  
#Notice: You can only exceute it once,or you'll meet the following error: "xgms: Command not found" .

11.Test the program by running all of the short tests.

cd ~/gamess
./runall 00

~/gamess/tests/standard/checktst

12. To make it easy to access the ‘rungms’ script,It’ better to define alias in the .bashrc files such as alias gms ‘$HOME/gamess/rungms’.

echo "alias gms='$HOME/gamess/rungms'" >> ~/.bashrc                #for Debian, Ubuntu, UOS​

echo "alias gms='$HOME/gamess/rungms'" >> ~/.bash_profile           #for CentOS and Amazon Linux​

This will allow them to execute their input file xxx.inp using this universal script, by

gms xxx >& xxx.log &​​

When only one argument is given, the version number will be what you customized in ‘rungms’ and the number of processors will default itself to 1.

13.Erros Workarounds:

ddikick requires significant amounts of shared memory. If your output file contains the error message:

DDI Process 0: error code 911
ddikick.x: application process 0 quit unexpectedly.
ddikick.x: Fatal error detected.
The error is most likely to be in the application, so check for input errors, disk space, memory needs, application bugs, etc.
ddikick.x will now clean up all processes, and exit…

you can try increasing your shared memory. First display the amount of shared memory available (in bytes):

# cat /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax

Then try increasing it to 4GB:

# echo 4294967296 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
# echo "kernel.shmmax=4294967296" >> /etc/sysctl.conf

or try increasing it to 16GB:

# echo 17179869184 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
# echo "kernel.shmmax=17179869184" >> /etc/sysctl.conf

References:

A.source mannul file1:~/gamess/README.md

B.source mannul file2:~/gamess/machines/readme.unix

C.GAMESS Installation Instructions for Linux