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Linux prerequisites

Here is the list of required packages you need to install on two examples of Linux distributions.

RedHat EL 8 64-bit

Warning

To install the xcb-cursor-util package properly, you must first activate the epel-release repository. You can do this by executing the command: sudo dnf install epel-release.

  • fontconfig.x86_64

  • freetype.x86_64

  • gcc-c++.x86_64

  • glibc.x86_64

  • libatomic

  • libX11.x86_64

  • libXScrnSaver.x86_64

  • libXcomposite.x86_64

  • libXext.x86_64

  • libXi.x86_64

  • libXinerama.x86_64

  • libXmu.x86_64

  • libXrandr.x86_64

  • libXrender.x86_64

  • libXt.x86_64

  • libgfortran.x86_64

  • libglvnd.x86_64

  • libglvnd-opengl.x86_64

  • libicu.x86_64

  • libpng.x86_64

  • libstdc++.x86_64

  • libxcb.x86_64

  • libxkbcommon-x11.x86_64

  • libxkbcommon.x86_64

  • libxkbfile.x86_64

  • libxslt.x86_64

  • mesa-dri-drivers.x86_64

  • mesa-libEGL.x86_64

  • mesa-libGL.x86_64

  • mesa-libGLU.x86_64

  • mesa-libGLw.x86_64

  • nss.x86_64

  • openssl.x86_64

  • pcre2-utf16.x86_64

  • readline.x86_64

  • xcb-util-cursor

  • xcb-util-image

  • xcb-util-keysyms

  • xcb-util-renderutil

  • xcb-util-wm

  • xdg-utils.noarch

  • xterm.x86_64

Ubuntu 22.04 64-bit

  • xterm

  • gcc-multilib

  • g++-multilib

  • g++

  • g++-5

  • g++-5-multilib

  • libatomic1

  • libgfortran3:amd64

  • libxcb-xinerama0

  • libicu-le-hb0

  • libiculx60

  • libxcb-cursor0

  • libpcre2-16-0

Note

On Linux, the Modelica compiler requires GCC version 4.8.5 or higher, as well as the same version of the libgfortran package.

Source: https://docs.sw.siemens.com/en-US/doc/254352342/PL20250521841123434.amesim_collection.installation_manual/xid1367894 · retrieved 2026-07-17