@Stephen DeWitt I think the best place to report such problems is https://github.com/LLNL/spack/issues
Looking at your error, i think it happens within your cluster, as it's ldconfig which complains /sbin/ldconfig: Can't create temporary cache file /etc/ld.so.cache~: > Permission denied But frankly, i have no idea what is going on. If you have ncurses provided by your OS and it has a standard prefix/include with prefix/lib or prefix/lib64 locations, then you can try using it instead by adding to your ~/.spack/linux/packages.yaml` packages: ncurses: version: [6.0] paths: ncrses@6.0%gcc@4.8.5: /path/to/ncurses/prefix/ buildable: False which will instruct Spack that this package is provided externally and there is no need to build it. There are plans to add OS specific configuration scopes to automate usage of external packages, but it's not yet there, see https://github.com/LLNL/spack/issues/2700 @Bruno On Thursday, March 16, 2017 at 6:43:13 PM UTC+1, Bruno Turcksin wrote: > > > I have tried to use spack several times on two clusters and it never > worked for me (but it works fine on my own machine). I usually have to > patch a bunch of things and at the > I am sorry, but when I see those comments, I have to say that I use Spack all the time on our cluster and it* works* for me. And it does for other folks in our chair who use it on the same cluster for their calculations with deal.II. Not only that, it works on my macOS Sierra and on a PC with Ubuntu 16.04. Bottom line - YMMW. Regards, Denis. -- The deal.II project is located at http://www.dealii.org/ For mailing list/forum options, see https://groups.google.com/d/forum/dealii?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "deal.II User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dealii+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.