Installation Dune and its Python bindings from PyPi
Download and install DUNE modules from PyPI
We have added installation support of Dune modules via pip
using the Python package
index (PyPI). The module and the modules it depends on are downloaded, build, and
installed either into the system or into a python virtual environment (the latter
might be of more interest as it is an option to install Dune without root privileges).
This could also be of interest for C++ users of Dune as Python bindings are not mandatory.
Scripts like dunecontrol
and duneproject
can be used the same way as with a system installation so that
installed and source modules can easily be used together.
Starting with the 2.8 release, we are planning to upload stable release versions as well as regular developer snapshots of all core modules. That should make it easy for users to work with an installed Dune which can be updated to a developer version if a newer feature is required.
Installing the main core modules (common
, geometry
, and grid
) can be
easily installed into a virtual environment without requiring root
prviliges by running
python3 -m venv ~/dune-env
source ~/dune-env/bin/activate
pip install dune-grid
You should now be able to test with one of your own Dune modules or you can run a Python test:
python -m dune.grid
cd grid_tutorial
python example.py
Simply remove ~/dune-env
to get rid of everything.
All core
modules are available on the Python Package Index (pypi), as well
as some additional grid managers (e.g. pip install dune-alugrid
),
and the discretization module dune-fem
.
We have tested on a number of Linux distributions and on MacOS.
On Windows follow the WSL installation
and instead of installing the binary packages use pip
as described above.
Please report if you encounter any problems with the setup.
Known issue
If some software component was found through the environment variable CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH
then there might be problems later when loading some shared libraries requiring to add those paths also the LD_LIBRARY_PATH
.
