Hi all,

I've been trying to install firedrake for some time on a (large) HPC system, without success.

As a humble user, I can't run the package manager.

One of the sys admins has made a valiant effort to get in installed on anaconda. It was rather tortuous (re-engineering the install script), but has fallen short of actually working.

Without anaconda, after loading git, gcc, openmpi and lapack modules, I tried

python3 firedrake-install --disable-ssh --no-package-manager

It fails compiling PETSc. The final part of the output is:

 File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/subprocess.py", line 438, in run
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['/MYOB/firedrake/bin/python', '-m', 'pip', 'install', '--no-binary', 'mpi4py,randomgen', '--no-deps', '-vvv', '--ignore-installed', 'petsc/']' returned non-zero exit status 1.

where "MYOB" is the subdir of my home directory.

The final part of  firedrake-install.log is

Processing ./petsc

  Created temporary directory: /tmp/pip-req-build-628_7y3h

ERROR: Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError.

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/MYOB/firedrake/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_internal/commands/install.py", line 345, in run

    resolver.resolve(requirement_set)

  File "/MYOB/firedrake/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_internal/legacy_resolve.py", line 196, in resolve

    self._resolve_one(requirement_set, req)

  File "/MYOB/firedrake/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_internal/legacy_resolve.py", line 359, in _resolve_one

    abstract_dist = self._get_abstract_dist_for(req_to_install)

  File "/MYOB/firedrake/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_internal/legacy_resolve.py", line 307, in _get_abstract_dist_for

    self.require_hashes

  File "/MYOB/firedrake/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_internal/operations/prepare.py", line 199, in prepare_linked_requirement

    progress_bar=self.progress_bar

  File "/MYOB/firedrake/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_internal/download.py", line 1037, in unpack_url

    unpack_file_url(link, location, download_dir, hashes=hashes)

  File "/MYOB/firedrake/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/pip/_internal/download.py", line 942, in unpack_file_url

    shutil.copytree(link_path, location, symlinks=True)

  File "/usr/lib64/python3.6/shutil.py", line 365, in copytree

    raise Error(errors)

shutil.Error: [('/MYOB/firedrake/src/petsc/.git/objects/pack/pack-411fdf97d273b4933195ac04e846e6825ec1d491.pack', '/tmp/pip-req-build-628_\

7y3h/.git/objects/pack/pack-411fdf97d273b4933195ac04e846e6825ec1d491.pack', "[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/tmp/pip-req-build-628_7y3h/.git/objects/pack/pack-411f\

df97d273b4933195ac04e846e6825ec1d491.pack'"), ('/MYOB/firedrake/src/petsc/.git/objects/pack/pack-411fdf97d273b4933195ac04e846e6825ec1d491.\

idx', '/tmp/pip-req-build-628_7y3h/.git/objects/pack/pack-411fdf97d273b4933195ac04e846e6825ec1d491.idx', "[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/tmp/pip-req-build-628_7y3\

h/.git/objects/pack/pack-411fdf97d273b4933195ac04e846e6825ec1d491.idx'")]

Cleaning up...

Removed build tracker '/tmp/pip-req-tracker-ad7jx96o'

I'd be VERY grateful for any pointers.

Niall.

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