geodynamics/pylith repository overview

⁠These containers are deprecated and only kept for archival purposes.

See https://geodynamics.org/cig/software/pylith⁠ and https://github.com/geodynamics/pylith⁠ for more information about PyLith and the current availability of containers.

⁠Setup (first time only)

Install Docker: https://www.docker.com/products/docker⁠

⁠Create container to store persistent user data

This container will hold a directory where all your user data can be stored for use with PyLith within Docker. This directory is not directly accessible from your host computer. However, you can copy files to/from your host filesystem using "docker cp".

$ docker create --name pylith-data geodynamics/pylith-data

⁠Run Unix shell within Docker to use PyLith.

$ docker run -ti --volumes-from pylith-data geodynamics/pylith

⁠To enable use of GUI applications, like iceweasel (Firefox), use

$ xhost +local:root
$ XSOCK=/tmp/.X11-unix/X0
$ docker run -ti --volumes-from pylith-data -e DISPLAY=$DISPLAY -v $XSOCK:$XSOCK geodynamics/pylith

The container includes the following useful utilities: * iceweasel (Firefox) web-browser for use with pylith_paramviewer * vim text editor * matplotlib Python plotting package

We do not yet include ParaView due to difficulties associated with rendering on the host display outside the container.

HINT: You will probably want to copy the examples from the pylith-VERSION directory to the data directory, which is the persistent storage.

$ cp -R ~/pylith-VERSION/examples ~/data