<dd>
<p>
<a href="http://www.caam.rice.edu/software/ARPACK/" target="_top">ARPACK</a> is a library for computing large scale eigenvalue problems.
- <a href="http://www.caam.rice.edu/software/ARPACK/" target="_top">ARPACK</a> should be readily packaged by most Linux distributions. (Don't forget to install a development version of the library). To use a self compiled version, specify
+ <a href="http://www.caam.rice.edu/software/ARPACK/" target="_top">ARPACK</a> should be readily packaged by most Linux distributions. To use a self compiled version, specify
<code>-DARPACK_DIR=/path/to/arpack</code> on the command line. For a detailed description on how to compile ARPACK and linking with deal.II, see
<a href="external-libs/arpack.html" target="body">this page</a>.
</p>
<p>
<a href="http://www.assimp.org/" target="_top"></a> is a portable Open Source library to import various well-known 3D model formats in a uniform manner. A subset of these formats can be read from within deal.II to generate two-dimensional
meshes, possibly embedded in a three-dimensional space.
- <a href="http://www.assimp.org/" target="_top">Assimp</a> should be readily packaged by most Linux distributions. (Don't forget to install a development version of the library). To use a self compiled version, specify
+ <a href="http://www.assimp.org/" target="_top">Assimp</a> should be readily packaged by most Linux distributions. To use a self compiled version, specify
<code>-DASSIMP_DIR=/path/to/assimp</code> on the command line.
</p>
</dd>
<dd>
<p>
The <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/">GNU Scientific Library</a> provides a wide range of mathematical routines such as random number generators, special functions and least-squares fitting.
- <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/">GSL</a> should be readily packaged by most Linux distributions. (Don't forget to install a development version of the library). To use a self compiled version, specify
+ <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/">GSL</a> should be readily packaged by most Linux distributions. To use a self compiled version, specify
<code>-DGSL_DIR=/path/to/gsl</code> on the command line.
</p>
</dd>
<dd>
<p>
The <a href="http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/">HDF5 library</a> provides graphical output capabilities in <code>HDF5/XDMF</code> format.
- <a href="http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/">HDF5</a> should be readily packaged by most Linux distributions. (Don't forget to install a development version of the library). To use a self compiled version, specify
+ <a href="http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/">HDF5</a> should be readily packaged by most Linux distributions. To use a self compiled version, specify
<code>-DHDF5_DIR=/path/to/hdf5</code> on the command line.
</p>
</dd>
<p>
<a href="https://github.com/jlblancoc/nanoflann" target="_top">nanoflann</a> is a C++11 header-only library for building KD-Trees of datasets with different topologies. In particular, it can be used for operations such as finding the
vertex or cell closest to a given evaluation point that occur frequently in many applications using unstructured meshes. scale eigenvalue problems.
- <a href="https://github.com/jlblancoc/nanoflann" target="_top">nanoflann</a> should be readily packaged by most Linux distributions. (Don't forget to install a development version of the library). To use a self compiled version, specify
+ <a href="https://github.com/jlblancoc/nanoflann" target="_top">nanoflann</a> should be readily packaged by most Linux distributions. To use a self compiled version, specify
<code>-DNANOFLANN_DIR=/path/to/nanoflann</code> on the command line.
</p>
</dd>
<dd>
<a href="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/" target="_top">NetCDF</a> is a library that provides services for reading and writing mesh data (and many other things). <acronym>deal.II</acronym> can use it to read meshes via one
of the functions of the <code>GridIn</code> class.
- <a href="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/" target="_top">NetCDF</a> should be readily packaged by most Linux distributions. (Don't forget to install a development version of the library). To use a self compiled version, pass
+ <a href="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/" target="_top">NetCDF</a> should be readily packaged by most Linux distributions. To use a self compiled version, pass
<code>-DNETCDF_DIR=/path/to/netcdf</code> to <code>cmake</code>.
</p>
</dd>
<p>
<a href="http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/" target="_top">PETSc</a> is a library that supports parallel linear algebra and many other things.
- <a href="http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/" target="_top">PETSc</a> is already packaged by some Linux distributions and should be found automatically if present. (Don't forget to install a development version of the library). To use a
+ <a href="http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/" target="_top">PETSc</a> is already packaged by some Linux distributions and should be found automatically if present. To use a
self compiled version of PETSc, add <code>-DPETSC_DIR=/path/to/petsc
-DPETSC_ARCH=architecture</code> to the argument list for
<code>cmake</code>. The values for these arguments must be the same as those specified when building PETSc.
<dd>
<p>
<a href="https://computation.llnl.gov/projects/sundials" target="_top">SUNDIALS</a> is a collection of solvers for nonlinear and differential/algebraic equations.
- <a href="https://computation.llnl.gov/projects/sundials" target="_top">SUNDIALS</a> should be readily packaged by most Linux distributions. (Don't forget to install a development version of the library). To use a self compiled version,
+ <a href="https://computation.llnl.gov/projects/sundials" target="_top">SUNDIALS</a> should be readily packaged by most Linux distributions. To use a self compiled version,
specify
<code>-DSUNDIALS_DIR=/path/to/sundials</code> on the command line.
</p>
<dd>
<p>
<a href="http://zlib.net/" target="_top">zlib</a> is a software library used for lossless data-compression. It is used in deal.II whenever compressed data is to be written.
- <a href="http://zlib.net/" target="_top">zlib</a> should be readily packaged by most Linux distributions. (Don't forget to install a development version of the library). To use a self compiled version, specify
+ <a href="http://zlib.net/" target="_top">zlib</a> should be readily packaged by most Linux distributions. To use a self compiled version, specify
<code>-DZLIB_DIR=/path/to/zlib</code> on the command line.
</p>
</dd>