Port to Ubuntu 26.04

README.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 ## What does this do?
 
-Vagrant pulls an Ubuntu 24.04 "base box" and asks e.g. VirtualBox to start a virtual machine.
+Vagrant pulls an Ubuntu 26.04 "base box" and asks, e.g., VirtualBox to start a virtual machine.
 It then installs basic tools (such as a desktop environment), a preCICE release,
 several solvers and adapters, as well as example and tutorial files.
 
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Ready-to-use boxes are available on [Vagrant Cloud](https://app.vagrantup.com/pr
 **Note:** If you only want to directly get a pre-built box, look at the [documentation](https://www.precice.org/installation-vm.html).
 
 1. Get a Virtual Machine provider, such as [VirtualBox](https://www.virtualbox.org/)
-2. Get [Vagrant](https://www.vagrantup.com/)
+2. Get [Vagrant](https://www.vagrantup.com/) and the [vagrant-reload plugin](https://github.com/aidanns/vagrant-reload)
 3. Go to the root folder of this repository and start with `vagrant up`.
 4. Be patient. Vagrant will now setup your virtual machine. You don't have to do anything and your terminal will be very busy.
 5. After the provisioning finishes, restart the machine with `vagrant reload` to get a full GUI
@@ -40,21 +40,24 @@ A few things you may need:
 
 ## What is included?
 
-This box is based on the [bento/ubuntu-24.04](https://github.com/chef/bento) base box and installs:
+This box is based on the [bento/ubuntu-26.04](https://github.com/chef/bento) base box and installs:
 
 - Xubuntu-core (Xfce desktop environment) and related tools
 - VirtualBox guest additions
 - Terminator (a nice split-window terminal emulator, find it in `Applications > System`)
+- GNU C++, C, Fortran compilers
+- Python, Julia, Rust
 - Git, CMake, ccmake
 - Editors: nano, vim, gedit
 - Diff viewer: meld
 - preCICE latest from the master branch (built in release-with-debug-info mode)
 - preCICE config visualizer with its GUI (PyPI, latest)
 - preCICE Python bindings (PyPI, latest), under `~/python-venvs/pyprecice`.
-- preCICE Julia bindings (Pkg, latest)
+- preCICE Rust bindings (Cargo, latest)
 - preCICE FMI Runner (PyPI, latest)
 - preCICE Micro Manager (PyPI, latest)
-- OpenFOAM v2512 and the OpenFOAM-preCICE adapter (Git, develop branch)
+- ASTE (Git, develop branch)
+- OpenFOAM v2606 and the OpenFOAM-preCICE adapter (Git, develop branch)
 - deal.II 9.5 from the official PPA and the deal.II-preCICE adapter (Git, develop branch)
 - CalculiX 2.20 from source and the CalculiX-preCICE adapter (Git, develop branch)
 - FEniCS latest from the FEniCS PPA. The FEniCS-preCICE adapter is installed automatically in the Python virtual environment of each tutorial.
@@ -75,8 +78,6 @@ At the end, it cleans up all object files and the APT cache (see `cleanup.sh`).
 
 ## What should be there but is currently not included?
 
-- ASTE (Git, develop branch) -> Cannot build using the VTK packages bundled in Ubuntu 24.04. Will enable again in the next upgrade.
-- preCICE Rust bindings (Cargo, latest) -> Cargo too old in Ubuntu 24.04.
 - code_aster 14.6 and the code_aster-preCICE adapter -> Adapter currently unmaintained.
 
 ## Troubleshooting

Vagrantfile

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
   # This allows us to create performance oriented images for Linux (libvirt) and Windows (hyperv).
   # However, it does not build: https://github.com/precice/vm/issues/83
   # config.vm.box = "generic/ubuntu2004"
-  config.vm.box = "bento/ubuntu-24.04"
+  config.vm.box = "bento/ubuntu-26.04"
 
   # We don't want the box to automatically update every time it starts.
   # We can instead handle updates internally, without destroying the machine.
@@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
     # Display the VirtualBox GUI when booting the machine
     vb.gui = true
     # Number of cores
-    vb.cpus = 2
+    vb.cpus = 4
     # Customize the amount of memory on the VM:
-    vb.memory = "2048"
+    vb.memory = "4096"
     # Video memory (the default may be too low for some applications)
     vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--vram", "64"]
     # The default graphics controller is VboxSVGA. This seems to cause issues with auto-scaling.
@@ -32,13 +32,16 @@ Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
   config.vm.provider :libvirt do |lv|
     lv.forward_ssh_port = true
     lv.title = "preCICE-VM"
-    lv.cpus = 2
-    lv.memory = 2048
+    lv.cpus = 4
+    lv.memory = 4096
   end
 
   # Install a desktop environment and basic tools
   config.vm.provision "shell", path: "provisioning/install-basics.sh", privileged: false
 
+  # Reload the VM (requires https://github.com/aidanns/vagrant-reload)
+  config.vm.provision :reload
+
   # Install common development tools
   config.vm.provision "shell", path: "provisioning/install-devel.sh", privileged: false
 
@@ -54,10 +57,7 @@ Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
   config.vm.provision "shell", path: "provisioning/install-micro-manager.sh", privileged: false
   config.vm.provision "shell", path: "provisioning/install-paraview.sh", privileged: false
 
-  # NOTE: In Ubuntu 24.04, building ASTE will succeed, but running the aste-turbine tutorial, for example, will break.
-  # See the documentation: https://precice.org/tooling-aste.html#dependencies
-  # Disabling until the upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04
-  # config.vm.provision "shell", path: "provisioning/install-aste.sh", privileged: false
+  config.vm.provision "shell", path: "provisioning/install-aste.sh", privileged: false
 
   # Install additional packages for training
   config.vm.provision "shell", path: "provisioning/install-training-python.sh", privileged: false
@@ -69,11 +69,10 @@ Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
   config.vm.provision "shell", path: "provisioning/install-dune.sh", privileged: false
   config.vm.provision "shell", path: "provisioning/install-su2.sh", privileged: false
 
-  # Rust tutorials incompatible with cargo 1.75.0, shipped with Ubuntu 24.04
-  # Error: The package requires the Cargo feature called `edition2024`, but that feature is not stabilized in this version of Cargo (1.75.0).
-  # config.vm.provision "shell", path: "provisioning/install-rust-bindings.sh", privileged: false
+  # NOTE: On Ubuntu 24.04, the Rust cargo installation is too old.
+  config.vm.provision "shell", path: "provisioning/install-rust-bindings.sh", privileged: false
 
-  # code_aster does not build on Ubuntu 22.04/24.04 due to multiple issues: https://github.com/precice/code_aster-adapter/issues/26
+  # code_aster does not build on Ubuntu 22.04 or later due to multiple issues: https://github.com/precice/code_aster-adapter/issues/26
   # config.vm.provision "shell", path: "provisioning/install-code_aster.sh", privileged: false
 
   # Post-installation steps

provisioning/install-basics.sh

@@ -1,19 +1,41 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -ex
 
-# Some repos are a bit fragile and need multiple download tries
-echo 'APT::Acquire::Retries "4";' | sudo tee /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80-retries
+# Make APT calls non-interactive
+echo 'debconf debconf/frontend select Noninteractive' | sudo debconf-set-selections
+
+# Pre-seeding of interactive dialogs (keyboard configuration, gdm3)
+cat <<EOF | sudo tee /tmp/preseed.cfg
+keyboard-configuration	question	select	us
+keyboard-configuration	modelcode	string	evdev-abnt2
+keyboard-configuration	layoutcode	string	us
+keyboard-configuration	store_defaults_in_legacy_files	boolean	false
+keyboard-configuration	variantcode	string	
+keyboard-configuration	toggle	string	No toggling
+EOF
+sudo debconf-set-selections /tmp/preseed.cfg
 
 # We (may) need the multiverse repository for the VBox Guest Additions
 sudo apt-add-repository multiverse
 sudo apt-get update
-sudo apt-get upgrade -qy
+
+sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y \
+  -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold" \
+  -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" \
+  upgrade
+
+# Some repos are a bit fragile and need multiple download tries
+echo 'APT::Acquire::Retries "4";' | sudo tee /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80-retries
 
 # Install the Xfce desktop environment and basic applications
-sudo apt-get install -y xubuntu-core
-sudo apt-get install -y thunar xfce4-terminal terminator bash-completion tree atril firefox firefox-locale-en baobab catfish
+sudo apt-get install -y xubuntu-core lightdm
+sudo apt-get install -y thunar thunar-archive-plugin xfce4-terminal terminator bash-completion tree atril firefox firefox-locale-en baobab catfish
 sudo apt-get install -y python3-dev pipx python-is-python3 python3-venv python3-pip python3-pybind11
 
+# Remove GNOME display manager and desktop packages
+sudo apt-get purge -y gdm3 gnome-shell ubuntu-desktop
+sudo apt-get autoremove -y --purge
+
 # Setup auto-login for the graphical session
 # Disabled due to https://github.com/precice/vm/issues/40
 # echo "autologin-user=vagrant" | sudo tee --append /usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/60-xubuntu.conf
@@ -25,10 +47,16 @@ sudo apt-get install -y virtualbox-guest-utils
 mkdir -p ~/Desktop
 
 # Use US-English keyboard layout
-L='us' && sudo sed -i 's/XKBLAYOUT=\"\w*"/XKBLAYOUT=\"'$L'\"/g' /etc/default/keyboard
+# L='us' && sudo sed -i 's/XKBLAYOUT=\"\w*"/XKBLAYOUT=\"'$L'\"/g' /etc/default/keyboard
 # Add a shortcut to the keyboard options on the Desktop
 cp /usr/share/applications/xfce-keyboard-settings.desktop ~/Desktop/
 chmod +x ~/Desktop/xfce-keyboard-settings.desktop
 
 # Set a hostname
 echo "precicevm" | sudo tee /etc/hostname
+
+# Workaround for the network timeout at boot
+sudo systemctl mask systemd-networkd-wait-online.service
+
+# Workaround for not being able to shut down the VM from inside itself
+sudo DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive systemctl mask systemd-timesyncd

provisioning/install-dune.sh

@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ fi
 (
     cd dune-elastodynamics
     git pull
+    # Apply patch https://github.com/maxfirmbach/dune-elastodynamics/pull/2
+    sed -i 's/VERSION 3.1/VERSION 3.13/g' CMakeLists.txt
 )
 
 # Get the plain DUNE-preCICE adapter
@@ -82,8 +84,8 @@ CMAKE_FLAGS="$CMAKE_FLAGS -DCMAKE_DISABLE_FIND_PACKAGE_Kokkos=TRUE" ./dune-commo
 # Set the DUNE_CONTROL_PATH (DUNE recursively finds modules in this directory)
 echo "export DUNE_CONTROL_PATH=\"\${HOME}/dune-dumux\"" >> ~/.bashrc
 
-# Copy the built example code to the tutorials
-cp ~/dune-dumux/dune-adapter/dune-precice-howto/build-cmake/examples/dune-perpendicular-flap ~/tutorials/perpendicular-flap/solid-dune
+# Make the built example code discoverable
+echo "export PATH=\"\${HOME}/dune-dumux/dune-adapter/dune-precice-howto/build-cmake/examples:\${PATH}\"" >> ~/.bashrc
 
 # We are done with DUNE, let's do back home
 cd ~

provisioning/install-fenics.sh

@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 set -ex
 
-# Install FEniCS from APT
-sudo apt-get install -y software-properties-common
-sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:fenics-packages/fenics
 sudo apt-get -y update
-sudo apt-get -y install --no-install-recommends fenics
+sudo apt-get -y install fenics
 
 # Install the FEniCS-preCICE adapter from PIP
 # python -m venv ~/python-venvs/fenicsprecice

provisioning/install-julia-bindings.sh

@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 # install latest julia
-pipx install jill
-jill install --confirm
-
-# install preCICE bindings
-julia -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.add("PreCICE")'
+curl -fsSL https://install.julialang.org | sh -s -- --yes
+echo "export PATH=\"\${HOME}/.juliaup/bin:\${PATH}\"" >> ~/.bashrc
 
 # to test the installation, run the following command:
 # julia -e 'using Pkg; Pkg.test("PreCICE")'

provisioning/install-openfoam.sh

@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ set -ex
 # Add the signing key, add the repository, update:
 wget -q -O - https://dl.openfoam.com/add-debian-repo.sh | sudo bash
 
-# Install OpenFOAM v2512:
-sudo apt-get install -y openfoam2512-dev
+# Install OpenFOAM v2606:
+sudo apt-get install -y openfoam2606-dev
 # Enable OpenFOAM by default:
-echo ". /usr/lib/openfoam/openfoam2512/etc/bashrc" >> ~/.bashrc
+echo ". /usr/lib/openfoam/openfoam2606/etc/bashrc" >> ~/.bashrc
 
 # Get the OpenFOAM-preCICE adapter
 if [ ! -d "openfoam-adapter/" ]; then
@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ fi
 (
     cd openfoam-adapter
     git pull
-    openfoam2512 ./Allclean
-    openfoam2512 ./Allwmake
+    openfoam2606 ./Allclean
+    openfoam2606 ./Allwmake
 )
 
 # Build the tutorials partitioned-heat-conduction solver
-cd ~/tutorials/partitioned-heat-conduction/solver-openfoam && openfoam2512 wmake
+cd ~/tutorials/partitioned-heat-conduction/solver-openfoam && openfoam2606 wmake

provisioning/install-paraview.sh

@@ -2,3 +2,6 @@
 set -ex
 
 sudo apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends paraview
+
+# Workaround for https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/paraview/+bug/2155064
+sudo apt-get install -y qt6-svg-plugins

provisioning/install-precice.sh

@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ fi
 (
     cd precice
     git pull
+
+    # Patch for Ubuntu 26.04, see https://github.com/precice/precice/commit/6a0be7aa64087f21740c566921e83e97e03e1067
+    sed -i 's/libxml2/libxml2-dev/g' cmake/CPackConfig.cmake
+
     mkdir -p build && cd build/
     cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo -DPRECICE_RELEASE_WITH_DEBUG_LOG=ON -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF -Wno-dev ..
     make -j "$(nproc)"
@@ -43,9 +47,6 @@ fi
 (
     cd tutorials/quickstart/solid-cpp/ && cmake . && make
 )
-(
-    cd tutorials/heat-exchanger && ./download-meshes.sh
-)
 sudo apt-get -y install gnuplot # needed for watchpoint scripts of tutorials
 
 

provisioning/install-su2.sh

@@ -8,15 +8,13 @@ source ~/python-venvs/su2precice/bin/activate
 python -m pip install mpi4py setuptools # pyprecice is installed by the tutorials
 sudo apt-get -y install swig
 
-# Get SU2 7.5.1 from GitHub
-wget --quiet  https://github.com/su2code/SU2/archive/refs/tags/v7.5.1.tar.gz
-tar -xzf v7.5.1.tar.gz
-rm -fv v7.5.1.tar.gz
+# Get SU2 from GitHub
+git clone --depth=1 --branch=v7.5.1 --recurse-submodules https://github.com/su2code/SU2.git
 
 # Add SU2 and the SU2 adapter to PATH and apply.
 # We first export to a separate script, so that we can load it here (non-interactive shell).
 {
-    echo "export SU2_HOME=\"\${HOME}/SU2-7.5.1\""
+    echo "export SU2_HOME=\"\${HOME}/SU2\""
     echo "export SU2_RUN=\"\${SU2_HOME}/SU2_CFD\""
     echo "export PATH=\"\${SU2_RUN}/bin/:\${HOME}/su2-adapter/run/:\${PATH}\""
     echo "export PYTHONPATH=\"\${SU2_RUN}/bin/:\${PYTHONPATH}\""
@@ -40,14 +38,20 @@ fi
 (
     cd "${SU2_HOME}"
 
-    # Add a previously implied header (compatibility with Ubuntu 24.04)
+    # Add a previously implied header (compatibility with Ubuntu 24.04 and later)
     sed -i '1s/^/#include <cstdint>\n/' SU2_CFD/src/output/filewriter/CParaviewXMLFileWriter.cpp
+    sed -i '1s/^/#include <cstdint>\n/' SU2_CFD/src/SU2_CFD.cpp
 
-    ./meson.py build -Denable-pywrapper=true --prefix="${SU2_RUN}" &&\
+    # Replace pipes with shlex in Ninja configure (compatibility with Ubuntu 26.04 and Python >= 3.13)
+    # See https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/commit/9cf13cd1ecb7ae649394f4133d121a01e191560b
+    sed -i 's/pipes/shlex/g' externals/ninja/configure.py
+
+    # Disable unnecessary dependencies to save space and to workaround an issue that CGNS does not build.
+    ./meson.py build -Denable-pywrapper=true -Denable-cgns=false -Denable-tecio=false --prefix="${SU2_RUN}" &&\
     ./ninja -C build install
 )
 
 # Remove the libSU2Core.a library to save space (approx. 500MB)
-rm -fv ~/SU2-7.5.1/SU2_CFD/obj/libSU2Core.a
+rm -fv ~/SU2/SU2_CFD/obj/libSU2Core.a
 
 deactivate

provisioning/install-training-fsi.sh

@@ -6,12 +6,14 @@ set -ex
 source ~/python-venvs/pyprecice/bin/activate
 python -m pip install pyfoam
 deactivate
-pipx install ccx2paraview
+
+# ccx2paraview is incompatible with newer vtk versions: https://github.com/calculix/ccx2paraview/issues/58
+# pipx install ccx2paraview
 
 # FreeCAD AppImage from https://www.freecad.org/downloads.php (~780MB)
 (
   cd ~/Desktop
-  wget https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/releases/download/1.1.1/FreeCAD_1.1.1-Linux-x86_64-py311.AppImage
+  wget --quiet https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/releases/download/1.1.1/FreeCAD_1.1.1-Linux-x86_64-py311.AppImage
   mv FreeCAD_1.1.1-Linux-x86_64-py311.AppImage FreeCAD.AppImage
   chmod +x FreeCAD.AppImage
 )

provisioning/post-install.sh

@@ -8,14 +8,16 @@ ln -sf /vagrant/ ~/Desktop/shared
 cp /usr/share/applications/terminator.desktop ~/Desktop/
 chmod +x ~/Desktop/terminator.desktop
 
-# Disable the screensaver and automatic screen lock
 {
+    # Disable the screensaver and automatic screen lock
     echo "xset s off -dpms"
     echo "gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.screensaver lock-enabled false"
-} >> ~/.bashrc
-
-# Add aliases and enable the python venv by default
-{
+
+    # Add aliases and enable the python venv by default
     echo "source ${HOME}/.alias"
     echo "source ${HOME}/python-venvs/pyprecice/bin/activate"
-} >> ~/.bashrc
+
+    # Add OpenMPI settings
+    echo "export OMPI_MCA_btl='self,sm'"
+    echo "export PRTE_MCA_rmaps_default_mapping_policy=:oversubscribe"
+} >> ~/.bashrc