Installing DOLFIN

From The FEniCS project

This guide is tested on Ubuntu 8.04 and assumes you have root (sudo) access. The DOLFIN components will be installed locally to allow multiple simultanuous installations.

Installing required packages under Ubuntu/Debian

Installing the required and some optional packages:

sudo apt-get install g++ scons mercurial libxml2-dev libgts-dev pkg-config \
python-dev python-numpy python-vtk swig libsuitesparse-dev libboost-dev wget

Download and install UFC:

wget http://www.fenics.org/pub/software/ufc/v1.0/ufc-1.1.tar.gz
tar xzf ufc-1.1.tar.gz
cd ufc-1.1/
sudo python setup.py install

Download and install Viper (optional):

wget http://www.fenics.org/pub/software/viper/v0.3/viper-0.3.0.tgz
tar xzf viper-0.3.0.tgz
cd viper-0.3.0/
sudo python setup.py install

It is possible to install without some of these packages by disabling features. For example to compile without SWIG use option: enablePydolfin=no

Downloading

The latest release can be downloaded from here. The development version can be cloned by

hg clone http://www.fenics.org/hg/dolfin

Compiling

To compile DOLFIN, simply run

scons

Optional components can be enabled or disabled by giving arguments to scons (use -h or -H when running scons to see the available options).

Installing

scons install prefix=`pwd`/local
source dolfin.conf

Compiling demos

To compile a specific demo program, navigate to that demo's subfolder and run scons. To compile all the demos, navigate to the top-level directory and simply run

scons enableDemos=yes

Some of the demo programs requires other FEniCS packages to be installed:

Download and install FFC:

wget http://www.fenics.org/pub/software/ffc/v0.4/ffc-0.4.5.tar.gz
tar xzf ffc-0.4.5.tar.gz
cd ffc-0.4.5/
sudo python setup.py install

Download and install Instant:

wget http://www.fenics.org/pub/software/instant/v0.9/instant-0.9.4.tar.gz
tar xzf instant-0.9.4.tar.gz
cd instant/
sudo python setup.py install

Download and install FIAT:

wget http://www.fenics.org/pub/software/fiat/FIAT-0.3.4.tar.gz
tar xzf FIAT-0.3.4.tar.gz
cd FIAT-0.3.4/
sudo python setup.py install