[Mesa-users] Re-installing MESA In Another Directory

[Francis Timmes]

one may have as many copies of a directory as one likes.
only one mesasdk is needed. you will need to set the
appropriate $MESA_DIR.

> I need to make a few changes in mesa code.

i encourage learning how to use mesa’s run_star_extra and hook capability;
i you do, it is unlikely that you will need to modify any core source code.
see, for example, josiah schwab’s “beyond inlists” mesa summer school material
that is available at http://cococubed.asu.edu/mesa_market/education.html

fxt





> On Jan 11, 2019, at 6:07 AM, Ebrahim Hassani via Mesa-users <mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear Mesa-users
> 
> My Ph.D. thesis is about “The Effect of Dark Matter Particles on Stellar Structure and Evolutions”. In this concern, I need to make a few changes in mesa code.
> 
> At now, I installed mesa-r10398 version on Linux-Ubuntu 16.04 LTS operating system (in ~/mesa-r10398 directory).
> 
> Is there any way to re-install the mesa-r10398 version in another directory (e.g. in ~/mesa-r10398-b directory) and modify the ~/mesa-r10398-b independent of the currently installed one?
> Do I need to re-install mesasdk for the ~/mesa-r10398-b one?
> 
> I would be very grateful if you help me with more guidance about the procedure that I must do.
> I would be pleased to hear from you soon.
> 
> 
> King Regards
> Ebrahim Hassani
> University of Birjand, Iran
> 
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