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- To execute one of the commands, type `make target-name'. Building
+ To execute one of the commands, type for example `make all'. Building
all libraries takes somewhere between 10 minutes and 1 hour,
depending on your machine and requires 200-400 MB of free disk
space. If you have a multi-processor machine, you can call `make -j4
<li> <p><code>lib/libdeal_II_2d</code>: This is the
library containing all the classes representing finite element
methods, grid handling, different finite elements,
- etc. Thus suffix <code>_2d</code> obviously indicates that this
- particularly library was compiled for two spatial dimensions,
- but if you told `make' to do so, there will also be libraries
+ etc. There will also be libraries
for one and three spatial dimensions.
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href="documentation.html" target="body">this page</a>.
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+ <p>
+ At this point, you have generated everything necessary to write
+ programs based on <acronym>deal.II</acronym>. If you are new to
+ <acronym>deal.II</acronym>, you may want to continue with the
+ <a href="doxygen/tutorial/index.html" target="_top">tutorial</a>.
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