Ah ok, I just thought it'd save me from forgetting to start the virtualenv each time since I never run any code that's not firedrake. Anyway, it works fine with the default virtualenv install - thanks David!

Jemma

From: firedrake-bounces@imperial.ac.uk <firedrake-bounces@imperial.ac.uk> on behalf of David Ham <David.Ham@imperial.ac.uk>
Sent: 10 April 2016 11:24:02
To: firedrake
Subject: Re: [firedrake] new firedrake install on El Capitan

Hi Jemma,

Why are you installing in global mode? That's a little tested option which is basically only there for supercomputers.

Using the usual virtualenv install (probably with --developer) is strongly recommended.

Regards,

David

On Sun, 10 Apr 2016 at 11:06 Shipton, Jemma <j.shipton@imperial.ac.uk> wrote:

Hi All,

I'm finally moving with the times and have upgraded my macbook to El Capitan with the intention of installing firedrake. I have got as far as running firedrake-install --global but it has stopped with the error:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "firedrake-install", line 842, in <module>

build_and_install_h5py()

File "firedrake-install", line 565, in build_and_install_h5py

raise InstallError("Unable to find installed PETSc when building h5py")

__main__.InstallError: Unable to find installed PETSc when building h5py

Any idea what's gone wrong?

Thanks,

Jemma