Hey Miklos,

My bad, that should be Ubuntu 15.10! I will try adding zlib1g-dev and
see if that fixes the issue.

Regards,
Chris

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 8:00 AM, Miklós Homolya
<m.homolya14@imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>> I am trying to get Firedrake installed on a new Ubuntu 15.04 machine,
> If it is new installation of Ubuntu, why did you choose a version that has reached its end of life?
>
>> configure: error: Can't find or link to the z library.
> Maybe try installing the zlib1g-dev package and try again?
>
> Regards,
> Miklos
>
>> On 19 Apr 2016, at 06:42, Chris Eldred <chris.eldred@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hey All,
>>
>> I am trying to get Firedrake installed on a new Ubuntu 15.04 machine,
>> and I am having some issues. I have attached the complete output from
>> the install script, the relevant error line seems to be:
>>
>> configure: error: Can't find or link to the z library. Turn off
>> netCDF-4 and opendap with --disable-netcdf-4 --disable-dap, or see
>> config.log for errors.
>>
>> in the PETSc configuration, so I tried:
>>
>> export PETSC_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS="--download-ctetgen --download-triangle
>> --download-chaco --download-metis --download-parmetis
>> --download-scalapack --download-hypre --download-mumps --download-hdf5
>> --download-exodusii --disable-netcdf-4 --disable-dap"
>>
>> but that still gave the error (in fact, it seems that the install
>> script was still trying to install netcdf-4). This is a totally clean
>> machine, just wiped it and installed Ubuntu 15.04 so I'm not sure what
>> is going on.
>>
>> Any ideas? Is there a hidden dependency for netcdf-4 or dap in the
>> PETSc options I selected?
>>
>> Regards
>> -Chris Eldred
>> --
>> Chris Eldred
>> Postdoctoral Fellow, LAGA, University of Paris 13
>> PhD, Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, 2015
>> DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellow (Alumni)
>> B.S. Applied Computational Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, 2009
>> chris.eldred@gmail.com
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