dymola-docker/README.md

Dymola Docker

Disclaimer

This is just an unofficial experiment by me. It seems to work, but no guarantee! This is based on the files provided by the RWTH Aachen for teaching.

Building

You need a running docker engine and X11. First you need to download the files (program files (rpm) and license file). Copy the folder AM_CAT_Dymola.AllLinux and Dymola.LIC in the same folder as the Dockerfile.

sudo docker build -t dymola .

This may take a while.

Running

There are a number of ways, but I use:

sudo docker run -it --rm -e DISPLAY=$DISPLAY -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix -v /path/to/my/dymola/workspace:/home/user/Dymola dymola

You can then run Dymola in the opened xterm (terminal):

dymola-2018-x86_64

This requires you to always set the path to the workspace on each start.