[petsc-users] Installing PETSc

[Balay, Satish]

On Tue, 5 Feb 2019, Fazlul Huq via petsc-users wrote:

> Hello PETSc Developers,
> 
> may be this is a trivial question!
> 
> I usually run PETSc code from Home/petsc-3.10.2 directory. Last day I tried
> to run the code from Documents/petsc directory but I can't.

I don't know what you mean here - please copy/paste your attempt - and errors you've got.

> As far as I can
> recall, I have installed PETSc in the Home directory. Is it the reason why
> I can't run PETSc code from other directory?

nope

> Shall I install PETSc in the root directory?

Once you have a working install of petsc library - you should be able to use it from anywhere
in the file-system.

> 
> Again, if I run command "which petsc" I don't get any echo on the terminal.

There is no 'petsc' binary in petsc library.

Satish