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

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