After some false starts, I was able to use deal.II on Ubuntu 18.04 by installing it from the backport PPA. It occurred to me that I might want to use it during a Windows session, and since Windows does not support it natively, the use of a pre-built Docker container came to mind.
The most likely candidate was dealii/dealii:latest. I was disappointed to note the the "examples" weren't there (or, at least, I can't find them) so I downloaded these from Github. As in the case of my abortive attempts on bare metal, I received such messages as the following: dealii@5ee4b768bb50:~/dealii/examples/step-5$ cmake . CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:30 (MESSAGE): *** Could not locate a (sufficiently recent) version of deal.II. *** You may want to either pass a flag -DDEAL_II_DIR=/path/to/deal.II to cmake or set an environment variable "DEAL_II_DIR" that contains this path. I was hoping that it would be a complete kit, but upbeat_albattani had let me down. Can anyone suggest a good way (reference, etc.) to get up to speed on this container? I can do everything I need to do on Linux, but there would be some advantage to being able to use it on Windows as well. -- The deal.II project is located at http://www.dealii.org/ For mailing list/forum options, see https://groups.google.com/d/forum/dealii?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "deal.II User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dealii/e007aee1-2057-4541-9eed-92c9bf5b0cf6%40googlegroups.com.
