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Linux Installation Guide

Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS (GNU/Linux 6.5.0-41-generic x86_64) running on bare metal using bash with elevated privileges​

1. System pre-requisites (sudo required)​

The following packages are system-wide prerequisites, i.e. they require sudo and they can be installed via apt:

  • unzip
  • bubblewrap
  • bzip2
  • python3-pip
  • python3-tk
  • m4
  • make
  • gcc

If your user is not in the sudoers (like if you’re on a cluster), you will not be able to install those

sudo apt install unzip
sudo apt install bubblewrap
sudo apt install bzip2
sudo apt install python3-pip python3-tk
sudo apt install m4 make gcc

Opam, the Ocaml package manager is also a pre-requisite. The recommended installation method script requires elevated privileges, as it defaults /usr/local/bin. If you do not have an existing Opam installation, you can change this by modifying DEFAUL_BINDIR inside the script, however, if you do, it will not work.

sh <(curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ocaml/opam/master/shell/install.sh)

2. Installing compilers (local user installation) and packages​

The following compilers have to be installed and can be installed as the local user:

  • Ocaml 5 ocamlc
  • Miking mi
  • Miking CorePPL cppl
  • TreePPL compiler tpplc
  • TreePPL Python package

Here is a script that takes care of the OCaml 5 installation:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Tested on Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS

####################
## Opam and OCaml ##
####################
read -p "Install/reinstall OCaml 5 (Opam required)? " -n 1 -r; echo
if [[ $REPLY =~ ^[Yy]$ ]]; then
  ## Clean up
  rm -rf ~/.opam

  ## Install OCaml 5 and standard packages
  opam init -y
  opam update
  opam switch create 5.0.0
  eval $(opam env)
  opam install -y dune linenoise utop ocp-indent merlin

  ## Install packages required in Miking
  opam pin ocamlformat 0.24.1
  opam install -y pyml toml owl
fi

[!NOTE]- Using a different OCaml version simultaneously with OCaml 5 The above script will create a switch for OCaml 5, but you could use different versions if you need them with ocaml switch.

The following script takes care of the Miking and TreePPL compilers and packages:

eval $(opam env)
git clone https://github.com/treeppl/miking.git
(cd miking && make install)

git clone https://github.com/treeppl/miking-dppl.git
(cd miking-dppl && make install)

git clone https://github.com/treeppl/treeppl.git
(cd treeppl && make install)

git clone https://github.com/vsenderov/treeppl-python.git
(cd treeppl-python && pip install -e .)

pip install matplotlib seaborn

This script will create three source directories in the directory where you execute it: miking, miking-dppl and treeppl and instruct you how to set up the environment variables. If you don’t want to do any TreePPL development, you can remove miking and miking-dppl install sources, but you don’t have to.

rm -rf miking/ miking-dppl/

Please make sure you add the environment customizations to your startup file .bashrc:

## Customizations for TreePPL
eval $(opam env)
export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
export MCORE_LIBS="coreppl=$HOME/.local/src/coreppl/"
export MCORE_LIBS="$MCORE_LIBS:treeppl=$HOME/.local/src/treeppl/"

3. Testing you installation​

To make sure your startup configurations worked, log out of your session and log back on. Typing tpplc should give you manual page for the tpplc compiler. You can also run a simple coin.py example:

tpplc
cd treeppl-python/examples
python3 coin.py

If you are running a graphics terminal, you will see the inferred coin distribution. Otherwise, you can open the generated image file coin_outcomes_plot.png. Don’t forget to delete it after that.

rm coin_outcomes_plot.png