make install
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These steps compile, link and install the deal.II libraries. The
- whole process should take between a few minutes and an hour.
+ whole process should take between a few minutes and an hour, depending
+ on your machine.
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<p>
sources and recompile things, then you can remove
the <code>build/</code> directory after the last step.
+ <li> In principle, after installing <acronym>deal.II</acronym>, you
+ can remove the source directory as well (i.e., the directory into
+ which <code>tar</code> unpacked the file you downloaded) since
+ projects using deal.II should only need files that have been
+ installed. However, you will find it convenient to keep the source
+ files around anyway, for two reasons: (i) When
+ debugging you often end up with assertions for which you'd like to
+ see the place in the library's source files that triggered it. (ii)
+ You may want to use the tutorial programs located in the source
+ directory.
+
<li> The <acronym>deal.II</acronym> <code>CMake</code> system can accept a
significant number of configuration parameters. See the
discussion <a href="#configuration-options">below</a>.