[firedrake] FD on mac

Lawrence Mitchell lawrence.mitchell at imperial.ac.uk
Thu Nov 26 12:18:00 GMT 2015



On 26/11/15 12:12, Floriane Gidel [RPG] wrote:
> I first tried to update FD, but the command to update petsc4py (pip
> install -U --no-deps git+https://bitbucket.org/mapdes/petsc4py.git@firedrake#egg=petsc4py) was
> taking all the application memory of the computer, and the computer
> just crashed in the end. 

You mean, the machine actually rebooted?

> So I tried to re-install Firedrake from scratch, but I still have an
> issue when trying to install petsc4py:
> 
> 
> - when installing Petsc, it installs version 3.7.0; I get the
> following message :
> 
> 
> Installing collected packages: petsc
> 
>   Found existing installation: petsc 3.6.2
> 
>     Uninstalling petsc-3.6.2:
> 
>       Successfully uninstalled petsc-3.6.2
> 
>   Running setup.py install for petsc
> 
> Successfully installed petsc-3.7.0.dev0
> 
> 
> - when I then try to install petsc4py, I've got an error saying that
> the version of petsc needed must be lower than 3.7.0 :
> 
> Collecting petsc<3.7,>=3.6 (from petsc4py)
> 
>   Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement
> petsc<3.7,>=3.6 (from petsc4py) (from versions: )
> 
>   Some externally hosted files were ignored as access to them may be
> unreliable (use --allow-external petsc to allow).
> 
> No matching distribution found for petsc<3.7,>=3.6 (from petsc4py)


Yes, this is why the description says to pass --no-deps (you've
asserted that petsc is already installed and the correct version).

I'm confused as to your other errors.

Lawrence



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