On 01/11/16 14:52, T. M. Bendall wrote:
Hi Lawrence,
Thanks very much for your help. I now tried reinstalling and it failed again, coming up against this:
Checking for presence of package python-pip...installed. Creating firedrake virtualenv. Traceback (most recent call last): File "firedrake-install", line 668, in <module> virtualenv.create_environment("firedrake", site_packages=False) File "/home/tmb15/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 924, in create_environment site_packages=site_packages, clear=clear, symlink=symlink)) File "/home/tmb15/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 1129, in install_python copyfile(join(stdlib_dir, fn), join(lib_dir, fn), symlink) File "/home/tmb15/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 352, in copyfile copyfileordir(src, dest, symlink) File "/home/tmb15/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/virtualenv.py", line 327, in copyfileordir shutil.copytree(src, dest, symlink) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/shutil.py", line 177, in copytree os.makedirs(dst) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/os.py", line 157, in makedirs mkdir(name, mode) OSError: [Errno 17] File exists: '/home/tmb15/src/firedrake/lib/python2.7/lib-dynload'
If you don't care about any existing "firedrake" virtualenv in /home/tmb15/src/firedrake, please remove that entire directory tree. I assume you are running firedrake-install from /home/tmb15/src. If you do care, move it out the way, and then do firedrake-install. Lawrence