add installation script for Ubuntu Linux

install/install.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+#================================================================================================
+# Bash shell script to install BlenderPhotonics and all dependencies
+#================================================================================================
+# installing software and python modules and their dependencies
+# (replace "apt" in the line below by "yum" on Fedora Linux, or "port" on Mac OS)
+#================================================================================================
+sudo apt install 'blender' 'octave' 'wget' 'unzip'                    # install software
+BPY=`blender -b --python-expr 'import sys;print(sys.executable)'|grep 'python'` #blender's python
+"$BPY" -m ensurepip                                                   # enable pip package
+"$BPY" -m pip install 'oct2py' 'jdata' 'bjdata' 'wheel'               # install Python modules
+#================================================================================================
+# download and install octave/matlab toolboxes (replace wget URLs by those of newer releases)
+#================================================================================================
+mkdir -p "$HOME/blenderphotonics" && cd "$HOME/blenderphotonics"      # create toolbox folder
+GH=https://github.com
+wget "$GH/fangq/iso2mesh/releases/download/v1.9.6/iso2mesh-1.9.6-allinone.zip" #iso2mesh toolbox
+wget "$GH/fangq/zmat/releases/download/v0.9.8/zmat-0.9.8-allinone.zip"         #zmat toolbox
+wget http://mcx.space/nightly/release/v2020/mmclab-linux-x86_64-v2020.zip      #mmclab toolbox
+find . -name "*.zip" -exec unzip '{}' \;                              # unzip toolboxes
+rm -rf "$HOME/blenderphotonics/*.zip"                                 # remove downloaded files
+echo "addpath(genpath('$HOME/blenderphotonics'));">>"$HOME/.octaverc" # add path to toolboxes
+#================================================================================================
+# donwload and install BlenderPhotonics add-on (replace wget URLs by those of newer releases)
+#================================================================================================
+BLENDERVER=`blender -v | grep -oh '\b[0-9]\+\.[0-9]\+'`               # obtain blender version
+BLENDERADDON="$HOME/.config/blender/$BLENDERVER/scripts/addons"       # get blender addon folder
+mkdir -p "$BLENDERADDON"                                              # create addon folder
+cd "$BLENDERADDON"
+wget "$GH/COTILab/BlenderPhotonics/releases/download/v2022pre/BlenderPhotonics-v2022preview.zip"
+unzip BlenderPhotonics-v2022preview.zip                               # install addon
+#================================================================================================
+# verification
+#================================================================================================
+blender -b --python-expr 'import oct2py;import jdata;import bjdata;'  # should show no error
+octave-cli --eval "which s2m mmc zmat"                                # should print the paths