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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