[petsc-users] Installing PETSc

[Jed Brown]

Fazlul Huq via petsc-users <petsc-users at mcs.anl.gov> writes:

> 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. 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? Shall I install PETSc in the
> root directory?

What do you mean by "run PETSc"?  How did you link your executable?

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

That is searching for an executable named "petsc" in your PATH.

  echo $PATH

to see the value of that variable.