By the way, the examples in the docker image are located under $(spack location -i dealii)/share/deal.II/examples
i.e., you can go to cd $(spack location -i dealii)/share/deal.II/examples and from there, compile and run. Notice that they are not pre-compiled (they would just take up download bandwidth). Best, Luca > On 13 Mar 2020, at 2:47, Robert Kopp <iconoklasti...@gmail.com> wrote: > > After some false starts, I was able to use deal.II on Ubuntu 18.04 by > installing it from the backport PPA. It occurred to me that I might want to > use it during a Windows session, and since Windows does not support it > natively, the use of a pre-built Docker container came to mind. > > The most likely candidate was dealii/dealii:latest. I was disappointed to > note the the "examples" weren't there (or, at least, I can't find them) so I > downloaded these from Github. As in the case of my abortive attempts on bare > metal, I received such messages as the following: > > dealii@5ee4b768bb50:~/dealii/examples/step-5$ 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 dealii+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dealii/e007aee1-2057-4541-9eed-92c9bf5b0cf6%40googlegroups.com. -- 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 dealii+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dealii/BCE03B9A-582A-4BE4-B0E4-057184160B55%40gmail.com.
