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Energyplus from pythonanywhere

Hi,

I am wondering if anybody has ever tried running energyplus (https://energyplus.net/) from pythonanywhere. How do I install the program on pythonanywhere ? Any help / suggestions would be greatly appreciated. thanks

Beloved premium user kilgore | 2 posts | Jan. 24, 2023, 4 p.m. | permalink

It's possible that you will be able to install and use that on PythonAnywhere.

Staff glenn | 9718 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | Jan. 24, 2023, 5:48 p.m. | permalink

Thanks for confirmation.

I tried and am getting the following error -

./EnergyPlus-22.2.0-c249759bad-Linux-Ubuntu22.04-x86_64.run: error while loading shared libraries: libxcb-xinerama.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

How do I install the libxcb-xinerama.so.0 library ?

Beloved premium user kilgore | 2 posts | Jan. 25, 2023, 4:47 a.m. | permalink

If there are system packages missing, users are not able to install them (at least not by using commands that require root privileges). Also Xinerama is an extension to the X Window System and PythonAnywhere is a headless environment, so that would probably not work.

Staff pafk | 3210 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | Jan. 25, 2023, 11:46 a.m. | permalink