How to download deal ii 8.2.1 virtual machine image

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Ajith nandan

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Apr 28, 2020, 10:54:37 AM4/28/20
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Hello everyone,
I want to install deal ii 8.2.1 virtual machine image in Oracle VM virtual machine in my windows 10 PC. How to install 8..2.1 deal II version.
Can anyone please guide me in this. I am using deal II for first time for doing a course. 

Thanks & Regards
Ajith 

Wolfgang Bangerth

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Apr 28, 2020, 11:48:24 AM4/28/20
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On 4/28/20 8:54 AM, Ajith nandan wrote:
> I want to install deal ii 8.2.1 virtual machine image in Oracle VM virtual
> machine in my windows 10 PC. How to install 8..2.1 deal II version.
> Can anyone please guide me in this. I am using deal II for first time for
> doing a course.

Ajith,
that's a rather old version of deal.II - more than 5 years. Why would you want
so old a version of deal.II?

But in general, what you can do is open the VM, open a browser in it, download
whatever deal.II version you want from
https://github.com/dealii/dealii/releases
and install it in the VM following the installation instructions on the
website. A VM is, in this regard, really no different from any other machine
on which you want to install deal.II.

Best
W.

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Ajith nandan

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Apr 28, 2020, 12:42:28 PM4/28/20
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Thanks Professor Wolfgang
I had an error while running my assignment code, so I saw in course forum that the coding assignment was made based on 8.2.1 version of deal II. so I need that version for completing the assignment.
 
Thanks & regards
Ajith

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James Gorman

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Apr 28, 2020, 12:44:15 PM4/28/20
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I believe the University of Michigan has an open access course on FEM using deal.ii, and it uses version 8.2.1. The videos/course notes were first posted around 2014, but the supplemental help for using deal.ii was uploaded in 2015. It doesn't appear as though the material has been updated, and I'm not sure if Krishna and/or Greg intend to in the near future.

Sincerely,
James Gorman

Ajith nandan

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Apr 28, 2020, 11:38:44 PM4/28/20
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I hope someone can update the material with the latest version of deal ii.

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Ajith

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Wolfgang Bangerth

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Apr 29, 2020, 10:36:49 AM4/29/20
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On 4/28/20 9:38 PM, Ajith nandan wrote:
> I hope someone can update the material with the latest version of deal ii.

You'll have to bring this up with the people who run the course. None of the
principal developers of deal.II are involved in that course.

James Gorman

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Apr 30, 2020, 9:36:40 AM4/30/20
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I talked with Greg, and it does not appear to they plan on updating the material. I am using it as just another source for examples of how to use deal.ii, but doing any examples and problem solving in the most-recent version of deal.ii.

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Ajith nandan

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Apr 30, 2020, 10:57:28 PM4/30/20
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Thanks, Professor Wolfgang and James Gorman.
I will try learning deal ii from the steps presented on the website.

Regards
Ajith

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Francisco Trigo

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May 1, 2020, 4:14:27 AM5/1/20
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Dear Ajith:

I have a copy of the .ova file of the virtual machine for Windows that includes deal.II version 8.2.1, but it's almost 3 GB. So it's not practical.

I think the best you can do is to go to 'https://www.math.colostate.edu/~bangerth/videos.html' and watch the "Lecture 3" video, where it's explained, step by step, how to download and install any version of deal.II.

Kind Regards.

Curro Trigo


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Jean-Paul Pelteret

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May 1, 2020, 4:51:05 AM5/1/20
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Dear Ajith,

To supplement what has been said before, older versions of deal.II can be found on the GitHub release page and our mirror:
It looks like both sites host the version that you’re looking for.

Best,
Jean-Paul

Ajith nandan

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May 1, 2020, 1:28:41 PM5/1/20
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I get an error after extracting and while doing the configuring step.
can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

Thanks & Regards
Ajith

Ajith nandan

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May 1, 2020, 1:31:08 PM5/1/20
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Dear Jean-Paul,
thanks for sending the link for previous versions. Should I download all the files or the .tar.gz file is enough to install an 8.2.1 version.

Thanks & Regards
Ajith 


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Jean-Paul Pelteret

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May 1, 2020, 3:45:36 PM5/1/20
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Dear Ajith,

You’re welcome! Just the .tar.gz is enough to get all of the source code for the library itself. As for your other problem, you’ve made the build directory inside the source directory, which is perfectly fine. But it looks like you’re not passing CMake the correct name of the source directory, and are also trying to install into the build directory. The former is the main issue here, but the latter is not such a good idea either. I think that this should fix it:

cd /home/ubuntu/Desktop/deal2/dealii-8.2.1/build
cmake -DDEAL_II_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/ubuntu/Desktop/deal2/dealii-8.2.1/install ..

This tells CMake that one directory below where you are now (so /home/ubuntu/Desktop/deal2/dealii-8.2.1/build/..) is where the source code is located, and it should install into the directory /home/ubuntu/Desktop/deal2/dealii-8.2.1/install once the library is build. Naturally, you could customise this however you wish, as long as you have write permissions to the folder you want to install into.

I hope that this solves your issue and gets you up and running.
Best,
Jean-Paul

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