PETSc can build MUMPS. Why not Python? :-) On Tuesday, October 13, 2015, Satish Balay <ba...@mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2015, Barry Smith wrote: > > > print '* Python is easy to install for end users or > sys-admin. *' > > print '* http://www.python.org/download/ > *' > > > Actually I don't think python is trivial for most end-users to install > [with all the modules - like ssl, compression and others stuff that > configure requires]. > > However I think RHEL5 and similar OSes are on clusters/servers > supported by a sys-admin. And they might already have python-2.6 or > newer [but its accessed with python26 or might need a proper module to > be loaded] > > If missing - google gives easy install guide for [admins] for rhel5. > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1465036/install-python-2-6-in-centos > [install prebuilt binary from 'fedora epel' > > > http://bda.ath.cx/blog/2009/04/08/installing-python-26-in-centos-5-or-rhel5/ > [install some devel packages from rhel - before attempting to compile > python from sources] > > Hopefully we don't have to deal with other OSes with python-2.4 > > Satish > -- Jeff Hammond jeff.scie...@gmail.com http://jeffhammond.github.io/