[petsc-users] PETSc installed without X windows on this machine

[Matthew Knepley]

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:20 AM, w_ang_temp <w_ang_temp at 163.com> wrote:

> Hello
>     When I try to view a matrix with the option -mat_view_draw, I get :
>     [0]PETSC ERROR: PETSc installed without X windows on this machine
> proceeding without graphics.
>     But calling MatView in side the code is ok.
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Are you saying that from within the code, MatView() draws a picture in an
X-window? I do not see
how that can possibly be the case. PETSc did not compile support for that,
as it says in the error
message.

   Matt


>     I install the libX11-dev as Matt said in one message in the
> petsc-users in 2008,  but the problem doesn't solved.
>     The system is ubuntu 10.04.
>     So what might be the reason?
>     Thanks.
>                                           Jim
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