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Re: The mess of package names

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On 09/19/2017 11:57 AM, Gary Roach wrote:
> Hi all,
> While this may seem to be a bit off topic, I feel that I may get answers
> faster here than any where else. This problem applies to Debian, Ubuntu
> and, to some extent, Mac OS.
>
> I have spent the last month and a half ( or longer) trying to compile
> and link a program called Elmer FEM. The problem that I keep running
> into is the naming practices in Elmer (and all the documents) vs
> Debian/Ubuntu. Elmer requires the following  libraries:
>  Mumps, MPI, OpenMP, FETI4I as a minimum. Hypre and trilinos have to be
> compiled from source code. The problem is that none if the four
> libraries go under the names mentioned above. By loading everything that
> even came close to the Elmer names I finally got a build that failed in
> the make process (the package uses cmake). The failure is due to the
> missing FETI4I library which have never found.
>
> What I need is a cross reference between Mumps, MPI, OpenMP and FETI4I
> and the library names in the Debian and Ubuntu repositories.
>
> Please, please help. Very frustrated.
>
> Gary R.
>
>
Thank you for all your replies. I now have managed to decipher enough to 
get Elmer running. I'm going to post the results on the Elmer Forum and 
am thinking about filing a bug report suggesting that the results be 
included in the README file. Well on to the next problem.

Thanks again.

Gary R.

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The mess of package names Gary Roach <gary719_list1@verizon.net> - 2017-09-19 21:00 +0200
  Re: The mess of package names Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2017-09-19 22:10 +0200
  Re: The mess of package names "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-09-19 22:20 +0200
  Re: The mess of package names Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-09-20 03:10 +0200
  Re: The mess of package names Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2017-09-20 07:00 +0200
  Re: The mess of package names Gary Roach <gary719_list1@verizon.net> - 2017-09-24 18:00 +0200
    Re: The mess of package names Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2017-09-25 01:40 +0200

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