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[Shawn Walker <walker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

BTW: I had modified this web page:

http://www.fenics.org/wiki/A_detailed_guide_to_installing_DOLFIN

To have more detailed instructions on installing DOLFIN for LINUX.  There 
used to be a BASH script (dorsal) that did it, but that was never updated. 
Just letting you know.

- Shawn

On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Anders Logg wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 07:39:31AM +0100, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> > Martin West wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > 	I have tried a bit this weekend to get Dolfin etc. installed on my
> > > MacBook With OS X 10.5. I was following the wiki instructions  but
> > > they seem to depart from what was happening towards the end.  I was of
> > > course ultimately unsuccessful.  I was wondering if there are any
> > > developers who have it all running well on OS  X, and if there are, do
> > > they know if the Wiki instructions are still up to date?
> >
> > I'm afraid those instructions are quite outdated. The following steps
> > work as of today.
> >
> > 1. You will first need to install Fink (the source distribution) from
> > http://www.finkproject.org/download/srcdist.php?phpLang=en .
> >
> > Either during initial setup or using 'fink configure', you need to allow
> > the use of unstable packages. (Similar to Debian.)
> > http://www.finkproject.org/faq/usage-fink.php#unstable
> >
> > 2. Fetch an archive of Dorsal (a build script) from the following URI:
> > http://www.fenics.org/dev/dorsal/ . There are gzip, bzip2, zip links on top.
> >
> > 3. Uncompress it, modify dorsal.cfg to your liking and run dorsal.sh. It
> > will give you Leopard specific tips regarding installing pre-requisites
> > (via Fink) and then proceed to do the brunt of the work for you.
>
> Should the outdated instructions be removed? Or perhaps replaced by
> these instructions?
>
> --
> Anders