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Quantum Espresso Series: Installing Quantum Espresso in Ubuntu 16.04 for newbies

Quantum Espresso is a opensource code for studying the electronic properties of materials. Installation of Quantum Espresso had been a difficult task earlier for new comers (now I believe that it is easy)

In this guide, I provide an easy way to install Quantum Espresso in Ubuntu 16.04. The hardware requirements can be seen here.

First check whether you have a FORTRAN complier (gfortran is a free FORTRAN compiler which is available in Ubuntu by default)

To update to new version of gfortran,

sudo apt-get install gfortran

This will install/update gfortran.

Now go the Quantum Espresso site.

Go to download page.

Download the specific version of the code you want.

Download the examples.

Extract the code using xzvf *.tz

Run ./configure

This will tell you if there is need for the installation of any packages

If configure is success,

Run make pw

Then move to examples folder

Now, you can run the specific examples

If there is need for 

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