Cannot install petsc on my Ubuntu

[Matthew Knepley]

On 10/6/06, He Xuefei <g0306037 at nus.edu.sg> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am a beginner with Linux. I just want to use petsc with C++ and do not
> need to use MPI. There is only petsc-dev in Ubuntu Synaptic Package
> Manager. After I installed it and followed your installation
> instructions, I always have "./config/configure.py No such file or
> directory". I have tried any methods on your website, but cannot fix
> that.
>
> I need to do this ./config/configure.py --with-clanguage=cxx
> --with-mpi=0, am I right?
>
> Could you please help me out? Tell me how to do step by step?


The Ubuntu version uses the Debian build framework, and you should not need
to build anything, jsut run the examples I believe. If you want to build, I
suggest
downloading the tarball from our website, and then following the
installation instructions.

  Thanks,

    Matt

Thank you very much.
>
> Xuefei
>
>


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