Re: The mess of package names
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 11:57:54AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote:
> Hi all,
> While this may seem to be a bit off topic, I feel that I may get answers
> faster here than any where else. This problem applies to Debian, Ubuntu and,
> to some extent, Mac OS.
>
> I have spent the last month and a half ( or longer) trying to compile and
> link a program called Elmer FEM. The problem that I keep running into is the
> naming practices in Elmer (and all the documents) vs Debian/Ubuntu. Elmer
> requires the following libraries:
> Mumps, MPI, OpenMP, FETI4I as a minimum. Hypre and trilinos have to be
> compiled from source code. The problem is that none if the four libraries go
> under the names mentioned above. By loading everything that even came close
> to the Elmer names I finally got a build that failed in the make process
> (the package uses cmake). The failure is due to the missing FETI4I library
> which have never found.
>
> What I need is a cross reference between Mumps, MPI, OpenMP and FETI4I and
> the library names in the Debian and Ubuntu repositories.
>
> Please, please help. Very frustrated.
A quick skimming of the web suggests that the Elmer FEM
developers aren't actually interested in keeping their
documentation up to date. At all.
If you really want to use this software rather than fiddle
with compiling it, you might want to download their virtual
machine image and just run that.
Not very satisfying, I know.
-dsr-
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