Hi David, Thanks for getting back to me. Please find a copy of the firedrake-install.log attached to the email. Thanks and regards, Rajdip On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 at 11:16, Ham, David A <david.ham@imperial.ac.uk> wrote:

Dear Rajdip,

Please post the file firedrake-install.log which will have been created alongside the firedrake folder when you installed. This will enable us to diagnose what has gone wrong in your install.

Please also don’t post screenshots of text, it’s really hard to work with.

I’m not an expert on Colab, but I understand it’s just an Ubuntu VM and that users do have permission to isntall packages, so running the firedrake install script may well just work. You probably need to ensure that you’re installing Firedrake into persistent storage because reinstalling Firedrake for every session will be tiresome.

Cheers,

David

*From: *firedrake-bounces@imperial.ac.uk <firedrake-bounces@imperial.ac.uk

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*Date: *Thursday, 14 January 2021 at 22:02 *To: *firedrake <firedrake@imperial.ac.uk> *Subject: *[firedrake] Difficulty installing firedrake

Hi there,

I am a Windows 10 user trying to install firedrake using WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) but have been unsuccessful. Could someone guide me on the installation? I keep getting this error message.

Or even better if someone can help me get it installed on google colab; I will share a google colab notebook for that purpose if you like.

Thanks in advance.

Rajdip

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Rajdip Nayek, PhD

Research Associate

The Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of Sheffield

Dear David, Thank you very much. After removing the folder and reinstalling firedrake, it is finally working :) Thanks and regards, Rajdip On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 at 11:41, Ham, David A <david.ham@imperial.ac.uk> wrote:

Dear Rajdip,

This log indicates that the install stopped because the firedrake/ directory already existed. This usually happens because a user has an installation failure and then tries to run the install script again without deleting the folder from the unsuccessful install.

Try running

rm -rf firedrake/

python3 firedrake-install

If the install fails again, please send us the new install log.

Cheers,

David

*From: *Rajdip Nayek <r.nayek@sheffield.ac.uk> *Date: *Friday, 15 January 2021 at 11:31 *To: *Ham, David A <david.ham@imperial.ac.uk>, firedrake < firedrake@imperial.ac.uk> *Subject: *Re: [firedrake] Difficulty installing firedrake

Hi David,

Thanks for getting back to me.

Please find a copy of the firedrake-install.log attached to the email.

Thanks and regards,

Rajdip

On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 at 11:16, Ham, David A <david.ham@imperial.ac.uk> wrote:

Dear Rajdip,

Please post the file firedrake-install.log which will have been created alongside the firedrake folder when you installed. This will enable us to diagnose what has gone wrong in your install.

Please also don’t post screenshots of text, it’s really hard to work with.

I’m not an expert on Colab, but I understand it’s just an Ubuntu VM and that users do have permission to isntall packages, so running the firedrake install script may well just work. You probably need to ensure that you’re installing Firedrake into persistent storage because reinstalling Firedrake for every session will be tiresome.

Cheers,

David

*From: *firedrake-bounces@imperial.ac.uk <firedrake-bounces@imperial.ac.uk

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*Date: *Thursday, 14 January 2021 at 22:02 *To: *firedrake <firedrake@imperial.ac.uk> *Subject: *[firedrake] Difficulty installing firedrake

Hi there,

I am a Windows 10 user trying to install firedrake using WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) but have been unsuccessful. Could someone guide me on the installation? I keep getting this error message.

Or even better if someone can help me get it installed on google colab; I will share a google colab notebook for that purpose if you like.

Thanks in advance.

Rajdip

--

Rajdip Nayek, PhD

Research Associate

The Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of Sheffield