On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Joakim Bø <[email protected]> wrote: > Downloaded FEniCS 1.5.0 last week (via sudo apt-get install fenics + sudo > apt-get dist-upgrade), everything has worked fine until now. Tried to run a > program where ParMETIS is applied for mesh partitioning; got the following > error message: > > > *** Error: Unable to compute mesh partitioning using ParMETIS. > *** Reason: DOLFIN has been configured without support for ParMETIS. > *** Where: This error was encountered inside ParMETIS.cpp. > *** Process: unknown > *** > *** DOLFIN version: 1.5.0 > *** Git changeset: unknown > > > Is there an easy fix? When I downloaded 1.5 I got the exact same problem > with SCOTCH, mailed this list and it was fixed lightning fast :-)
The ParMETIS package in Ubuntu is unfortunately too old for DOLFIN. If you need DOLFIN with ParMETIS support, you must build from source, for instance by using the fenics-install.sh script. Johannes _______________________________________________ fenics-support mailing list [email protected] http://fenicsproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fenics-support
