Regarding Python, it shouldn't matter which Python you have (or if you have multiple Pythons), since Python will be built as part of the installation.
Regarding sudo, everything will be installed in your home directory (in ~/.hashdist) so sudo is not needed. -- Anders Sat Dec 06 2014 at 5:56:33 PM skrev Jan Blechta <[email protected] >: > 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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