The following installation guidelines are mainly for experienced users working on a Linux environment. It is highly recommended to use docker or conda, for quick installation and for package and dependency updates.
You can find simple installation instructions for gospl in this document.
Installation via PyPI¶
gospl can be installed via pip from
PyPI.
pip install gospl
The installation however requires additional dependencies and is likely to
failed if some initial packages are not already available. When using pip,
it is recommended to use virtualenv. For a guide on how to use it, readers
are invited to look at visit the Python documentation.
Installing dependencies¶
On linux, you will need to install MPI, PETSc and Hdf5 via the your Linux distribution’s package manager.
For example, the commands in this table will install MPICH from your distribution.
Distribution |
Status |
Download / Repository Link |
Install method |
|---|---|---|---|
Debian |
stable |
|
|
Debian & Ubuntu |
unstable (latest packages) |
|
|
Ubuntu |
stable |
|
|
OpenSuse |
stable |
|
|
Fedora |
stable |
|
|
Centos/RHEL |
stable |
|
Using the apt-get command. This will likely be done by:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mpich libmpich-dev libhdf5-mpich-dev
sudo apt-get install libblas-dev liblapack-dev
sudo apt-get install libscotchparmetis-dev libmetis-dev
If you have PETSc already installed, you can point to your PETSC_DIR and PETSC_ARCH or you can unset these paths before installing the petsc4py module via pip:
unset PETSC_DIR
unset PETSC_ARCH
Installing PETSc and gospl¶
Then the remaining library are installed locally by running:
pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
pip install petsc --user
pip install petsc4py --user
pip install gospl --user