Thanks again. It would appear that I don't have pip installed. (see below) I found instructions on their site on how to do that and of course it doesn't work for some reason. I will get to to him me set up pip and then try again tomorrow and hope I can get a bit further. I will let you know things progress, when they progress that is. Cheers, Francis [fpoulin@orc129 software]$ apt-get --version -bash: apt-get: command not found [fpoulin@orc129 software]$ python firedrake-install --honour-pythonpath --no_package_manager apt-get not found or disabled. Proceeding on the rash assumption that your compiled dependencies are in place. If this is not the case, please install the following and try again: * 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 * autoconf, automake, libtool * CMake * zlib Installing virtualenv. Collecting virtualenv Retrying (Retry(total=4, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None)) after connection broken by 'ProtocolError('Connection aborted.', error(101, 'Network is unreachable'))': /simple/virtualenv/ Retrying (Retry(total=3, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None)) after connection broken by 'ProtocolError('Connection aborted.', error(101, 'Network is unreachable'))': /simple/virtualenv/ Retrying (Retry(total=2, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None)) after connection broken by 'ProtocolError('Connection aborted.', error(101, 'Network is unreachable'))': /simple/virtualenv/ Retrying (Retry(total=1, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None)) after connection broken by 'ProtocolError('Connection aborted.', error(101, 'Network is unreachable'))': /simple/virtualenv/ Retrying (Retry(total=0, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None)) after connection broken by 'ProtocolError('Connection aborted.', error(101, 'Network is unreachable'))': /simple/virtualenv/ Retrying (Retry(total=4, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None)) after connection broken by 'ProtocolError('Connection aborted.', error(101, 'Network is unreachable'))': /simple/virtualenv/ Retrying (Retry(total=3, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None)) after connection broken by 'ProtocolError('Connection aborted.', error(101, 'Network is unreachable'))': /simple/virtualenv/ Retrying (Retry(total=2, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None)) after connection broken by 'ProtocolError('Connection aborted.', error(101, 'Network is unreachable'))': /simple/virtualenv/ Retrying (Retry(total=1, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None)) after connection broken by 'ProtocolError('Connection aborted.', error(101, 'Network is unreachable'))': /simple/virtualenv/ Retrying (Retry(total=0, connect=None, read=None, redirect=None)) after connection broken by 'ProtocolError('Connection aborted.', error(101, 'Network is unreachable'))': /simple/virtualenv/ Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement virtualenv (from versions: ) No matching distribution found for virtualenv Traceback (most recent call last): File "firedrake-install", line 1172, in <module> check_call(["pip", "install", "--user", "virtualenv"]) File "firedrake-install", line 369, in check_call subprocess.check_call(arguments, env=env) File "/opt/sharcnet/python/2.7.8/intel/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 540, in check_call raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd) subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['pip', 'install', '--user', 'virtualenv']' returned non-zero exit status 1