Unverified Commit 6a1b6163 authored by Axel Kohlmeyer's avatar Axel Kohlmeyer
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provide some more details about 'make install' with CMake

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@@ -52,11 +52,16 @@ LAMMPS or need to re-compile LAMMPS repeatedly, installation of the
ccache (= Compiler Cache) software may speed up repeated compilation
even more.

After compilation, you can optionally copy the LAMMPS executable and
library into your system folders (by default under $HOME/.local) with:
After compilation, you may optionally install the LAMMPS executable into
your system with:

make install    # optional, copy LAMMPS executable & library elsewhere :pre

This will install the lammps executable and library (if requested), some
tools (if configured) and additional files like library API headers, manpages,
potential files. The location of the installation tree is set by the CMake
variable "CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX" which defaults to $\{HOME\}/.local

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There are 3 variants of CMake: a command-line version (cmake), a text mode