Hello Lawrence, Thanks for explaining the situation and showing me how to fix it. I did the update on my mac and it did seem to view the data files made in parallel without me having to do anything. Thank Jemma for solving the problem even before I asked. I am redoing the linux install but suspect that will work fine. It usually does. If not I will let you know. Cheers, Francis ------------------ Francis Poulin Associate Professor Department of Applied Mathematics University of Waterloo email: fpoulin@uwaterloo.ca Web: https://uwaterloo.ca/poulin-research-group/ Telephone: +1 519 888 4567 x32637 ________________________________________ From: firedrake-bounces@imperial.ac.uk [firedrake-bounces@imperial.ac.uk] on behalf of Lawrence Mitchell [lawrence.mitchell@imperial.ac.uk] Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 7:43 AM To: firedrake@imperial.ac.uk Subject: Re: [firedrake] problem with a fresh install on ubuntu 16.04 Dear Francis, On 17/05/16 12:33, Francis Poulin wrote:
Hello,
Actually, when I tried updating firedrake on my mac laptop I received the same error.
Maybe there is something else that's wrong?
We recently integrated an undocumented (sorry) dependency into the toolchain that none of us noticed locally because we already had all the bits installed! You need to install the autotools packages: On ubuntu the packages you need are called: automake, autoconf, libtool On your mac, you need to install (with brew): automake, autoconf, libtool We will update the installation script to do this by magic later today once we have tested things properly. Unfortunately there is no way to resume from a half-finished installation (because we can't safely recover from a broken state). If firedrake-install fails, you therefore sadly have to blow away and start again. Thanks, Lawrence