PETSc installed without X windows

Matthew Knepley knepley at gmail.com
Sat Jun 28 12:34:27 CDT 2008


On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Waad Subber <w_subber at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thank you Satish
>
> My system is ubuntu 8.04 LTS , and Yes I have X11 running on my machine

Then you must install the libX11-dev package.

  Matt

> Waad
> --- On Sat, 6/28/08, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>
> From: Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov>
> Subject: Re: PETSc installed without X windows
> To: petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov
> Date: Saturday, June 28, 2008, 1:13 PM
>
> What OS is this? Do you have X11 [include, library files]  installed on this
> machine?
>
> [if linux - then they can be in libX11-devel or equivalent package]
>
> Satish
>
> On Sat, 28 Jun 2008, Waad Subber wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> When I try to view a matrix with the option -mat_view_draw, or call
> MatView in side the code . I get :
>>
>> [0]PETSC
>  ERROR: PETSc installed without X windows on this machine
>> proceeding without graphics
>>
>> I reconfigure Petsc with the option --with-X=1, but the problem
> doesn't solved
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Waad
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>



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