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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 05:51:00PM +0200, Johannes Ring wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 04:05:01PM +0200, Harish Narayanan wrote:
> >> Dorsal supports Lucid Lynx (Ubuntu 10.04) out of the box. Doing a
> >>
> >> bzr pull lp:dorsal
> >> cd dorsal
> >> ./dorsal.sh
> >>
> >> soon gets you a working FEniCS installation.[1]
> >>
> >> The better news is that even this is not necessary.
> >>
> >> Thanks to Johannes, Lucid has FEniCS as part of its package
> >> repositories. All you really need to do is to look for it in the
> >> "Software Center" and install it![2]
> >
> > In other words: sudo apt-get install fenics
>
> Or one can simply click on this link (apturl): apt://fenics

That's pretty cool!

That very much simplifies one case for Harish platform sniff/auto-installer:

http://new.fenics.org/utilities/sandbox/platform-sniff.html

--
Anders


> > No need to update program sources or anything.
>
> This has been made very easy starting from Karmic. Simply do
>
>   sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fenics/ppa
>   sudo apt-get update
>   sudo apt-get install fenics
>
> Johannes
>
> > I tried it yesterday
> > on a fresh installation and it works out of the box!
> >
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