If you want to use binary packages I highly recommend to use the PPA here in order to get the newest version:
https://launchpad.net/~ginggs/+archive/ubuntu/deal.ii-backports After that make sure that you actually install the developer version. All in one: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ginggs/deal.ii-backports sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libdeal.ii-dev After that, a simple $ cmake . should be enough to configure the example steps. Best, Matthias On Mon, Mar 9, 2020, at 23:29 CDT, Robert Kopp <iconoklasti...@gmail.com> wrote: > I downloaded the source code for deal.II in Ubuntu, which contains the > example files. (I'm a beginner.) I noted, however, that a binary is > available for Ubuntu (18.04) and installed that, instead of compiling the > library. Then I attempted to run step-1.cc from the source code package, > after determining that the library was in /usr/include: > > (base) robert@robert-desktop:~/deal/dealii-9.1.1/examples/step-1$ cmake > -DDEAL_II_DIR=/usr/include/deal.II . > CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:30 (MESSAGE): > > > *** Could not locate a (sufficiently recent) version of deal.II. *** > > > > You may want to either pass a flag -DDEAL_II_DIR=/path/to/deal.II to cmake > > or set an environment variable "DEAL_II_DIR" that contains this path. > > > -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred! > > It's not clear to me why this doesn't work, but it doesn't work that way on > Debian either. Any advice would be appreciated. -- 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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dealii/87wo7sn5ox.fsf%4043-1.org.
