> On 19 Feb 2015, at 16:10 , Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 02/19/2015 03:29 PM, Jan Blechta wrote:
>> Do you have any strong reason for using Dorsal? Dorsal is retired, not 
>> maintained and not supported. Refer to http://fenicsproject.org/download/ 
>> for possible ways of installing FEniCS. Jan
> 
> I now remember why I found Dorsal: It was because I'm on centos which doesn't 
> use apt-get - but yum for installing packages... So I could see it wasn't 
> straightforward to download and I thought Dorsal was a lazy way of handling 
> all dependencies correctly. It would be nice with binaries for Centos/Redhat 
> - but I now try to build everything from source and hope it works allright 
> and I hope I will not enter the "dependency-hell" and have spend too much 
> time on that. So far the build is going ok (30 minutes - it says it should 
> take 2 hours)…

On RHEL7 hashstack / fenics-install.sh works very well.  I use my own profile 
to build nearly everything possible to make the installation very 
self-contained and it’s very smooth.


-- 
Terje Kvernes
Head sysadmin
Department of Mathematics
University of Oslo




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