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

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> 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