Hi David, Thanks for your reply. I am now based at MARIN where I work on a machine with Scientific Linux release 7.2 (Nitrogen). Which packages do I need in that case? Best, Floriane ________________________________ De : firedrake-bounces@imperial.ac.uk <firedrake-bounces@imperial.ac.uk> de la part de David Ham <David.Ham@imperial.ac.uk> Envoyé : mardi 10 mai 2016 08:53:38 À : firedrake Objet : Re: [firedrake] installation Linux Hi Floriane, It looks like you are trying to use the automatic package installation features on a linux distribution which is not based on apt. Which distro is this? Is it CentOS (like many of the Leeds machines)? If so, you should call: firedrake-install --no-package-manager In that case, you need to ensure that the following packages are installed: * A C and C++ compiler (for example gcc/g++ or clang), GNU make * A Fortran compiler (for PETSc) * MPI * Blas and Lapack * Git, Mercurial * Python version 2.7 * pip and the Python headers * CMake * libspatialindex and headers * zlib Regards, David On Tue, 10 May 2016 at 07:59 Floriane Gidel [RPG] <mmfg@leeds.ac.uk<mailto:mmfg@leeds.ac.uk>> wrote: Dear all, I am working on a Linux machine on which the IT team tried to install Firedrake, but got the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "firedrake-install", line 766, in <module> check_call(["apt-get", "--version"]) File "firedrake-install", line 205, in check_call subprocess.check_call(arguments, env=env) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 537, in check_call retcode = call(*popenargs, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 524, in call return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 711, in __init__ errread, errwrite) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1327, in _execute_child raise child_exception OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Do you know what the issue is? Best, Floriane