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Clarify installation instructions for HDF5 pre-req and Ubuntu PPA
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Installing on Ubuntu with PPA
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For users with Ubuntu 11.10 or later, a binary package for OpenMC is available
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For users with Ubuntu 15.04 or later, a binary package for OpenMC is available
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through a Personal Package Archive (PPA) and can be installed through the APT
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package manager. First, add the following PPA to the repository sources:
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sudo apt-get install openmc
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Binary packages from this PPA may exist for earlier versions of Ubuntu, but they
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are no longer supported.
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Building from Source
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You may omit ``--enable-parallel`` if you want to compile HDF5_ in serial.
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OpenMC uses various parts of the HDF5 Fortran 2003 API; as such you
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must include ``--enable-fortran2003`` or else OpenMC will not be able
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to compile.
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On Debian derivatives, HDF5 and/or parallel HDF5 can be installed through
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the APT package manager:
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