Hi, I am a beginner user. This post is not a question; my intention is to share possibly helpful information with other beginners like me.
I installed deal.ii via spack, because the README for deal.ii made the manual installation look too hard and/or time-consuming, and I like conda in Python, and spack seemed similar to conda. I started through the deal.ii video tutorials and got stuck in 7 and 8 with various problems in Eclipse; lots of things were not working. I then tried Qt Creator. The initial cmake step that runs automatically upon opening the CMakeLists.txt file in Qt Creator would not work, so I could do nothing with Qt Creator. Everything worked in the terminal (no IDE, just terminal); only the IDEs were misbehaving. I googled too much and tried different things, then realized it might be the choice of installing deal.ii via spack that is a problem. I gave a try to installing deal.ii manually according to the README, and it wasn't as bad as I was afraid of in terms of time or effort. I just went through video 7 with Qt Creator instead of Eclipse, and things work within Qt Creator so far. I have not tried Eclipse again, since I only need one IDE. I'm using Ubuntu 16.04. I wonder if the very long file paths generated by spack are a problem. Thanks, D.D. -- 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.
