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Firedrake is an automated system for the portable solution of partial differential equations using the finite element method (FEM)
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INSTALL: MacBook Pro installation fail #3797

Closed Frej-D closed 1 month ago

Frej-D commented 1 month ago

I'm trying to install firedrake on my MacBook Pro with MacOS Ventura 13.7. I've installed python through homebrew and am running the command '/usr/local/bin/python3 firedrake-install' as when I use 'python3 firedrake-install' it defaults to MacOS system python.

I've included the install log. I'm not very tech-savvy so any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

firedrake-install.log

connorjward commented 1 month ago

The log shows

2024-10-14 11:56:41,888 DEBUG  Using pip 24.2 from /Users/frejdunn/firedrake/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pip (python 3.13)
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement vtk>=9.0.1 (from versions: none)

so clearly VTK do not have a Mac wheel for Python 3.13 yet.

@JDBetteridge what is the recommended solution for this?

JDBetteridge commented 1 month ago

This was posted on slack, but I will summarise options here for reference:

  1. Install firedrake passing the --no-vtk flag (if you aren't planning on using VTK output in the near future).
  2. Downgrade your Python version to 3.12, but you will have to completely reinstall Firedrake when you update back to 3.13
  3. (More involved) Build your own VTK package using our guide and repo.
connorjward commented 1 month ago

@Frej-D can this issue be closed?

Frej-D commented 1 month ago

Yep, thank you! The second option worked for me.