On Sat, 6 Dec 2014 15:18:57 +0000 "Jacobson, Clas A UTSCE" <[email protected]> wrote:
> This sounds great – too good to be true… > > I installed Fenics on a Mac earlier this year with lots of help – I > tried Macports and ultimately built from source. It was not easy and > I proceeded in fits and starts over a period of time but got > everything to work eventually. > > I updated to Yosemite a few weeks ago and have had to reinstall a lot > of software. I have avoided Fenics up to now – this looks very > promising to update to 1.4. > > A few questions before I start this journey – > > > - I still use python 2.7. Is this supported here or is this a > python 3 situation now? FEniCS dev should work with py 3. FEniCS 1.4.0 only with py 2. > > - Is this right – or should this be “sudo wget…” – at least > for me when I built Fenics earlier I had to be superuser. It seems that everything is done in user's home directory so privileges shouldn't be needed. Jan > > Just a few points of guidance on what you did when you built on a Mac > would help – then I will go and try this. > > Clas > > > Clas A. Jacobson > Chief Scientist > United Technologies Systems & Controls Engineering > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > 860.610.7652 (office) > 860.830.4151 (mobile) > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anders Logg > Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2014 7:59 AM To: [email protected] > Subject: [External] [FEniCS] Try out the new one-click FEniCS > HashDist installation > > Dear all, > > Johannes and I have created an experimental "one-click" installation > of FEniCS based on HashDist. > > This lets users and developers install FEniCS (build from source) and > all of its dependencies via a one-line command. > > Please try out the following: > > wget -O - http://fenicsproject.org/fenics-install.sh | bash > > If this works out, you should get a nice and clean build of FEniCS, > PETSc, VTK etc etc etc via HashDist. This has been tested on Ubuntu > 12.04 and OS X 10.10. > > If this works out, my hope is that we could promote this as the > officially recommended way to install FEniCS. > > -- > Anders _______________________________________________ fenics mailing list [email protected] http://fenicsproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fenics
