From e4add34659b6086859889c39aa1d69e2c4956f5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: maier
- The whole library usually comes as a .tar.gz file, that is a
- tarred file archive which is compressed with gzip. After downloading it,
+ The whole library usually comes as a Unpacking
.tar.gz
file,
+ which is a file archive compressed with gzip. After downloading it,
unpack it using either
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@
or, if you have GNU tar with
- These steps compile, link and install the deal.II libraries and should
- take between a few minutes and an hour. Note the following:
+ These steps compile, link and install the deal.II libraries. The
+ whole process should take between a few minutes and an hour.
- tar xzf deal.II-X.Y.Z.tar.gz
+ tar -xvf deal.II-X.Y.Z.tar.gz
Note: You will want to hang on to the source files
of deal.II after installation as it makes developing
@@ -216,8 +216,9 @@
make
make install
+ Note:
/path/install/dir
is the directory where you want to
install the deal.II header files and libraries to. This can be a
@@ -235,19 +236,19 @@
sources and recompile things, then you can remove
the build/
directory after the last step.
- cmake
system can accept a
+ CMake
system can accept a
significant number of configuration parameters. See the
discussion below.
- cmake
a second time, possibly with
- different arguments. However, this sometimes leads to
- surprising results and you may not get exactly what you were
- hoping for. For more information, see here.
+ cmake
a second time,
+ possibly with different arguments.
+ However, this sometimes leads to surprising results and you may
+ not get exactly what you were hoping for. For more information,
+ see here.
- Apart from the libraries, the steps above install all necessary header - files you need to develop programs based on deal.II - as well as generate the full set of - documentation files so that it can be used locally on your computer. You - will then be able to access it through - this page. -
-At this point, you have generated everything necessary to write programs based on deal.II. If you are new to @@ -300,7 +292,6 @@ tutorial.
-