installing FEniCS on MAC

[Amit Jain]

Hi,

I installed FEniCS using .dmg file on the given link " http://fenicsproject.org/download/osx_details.html ".

But while running the demo script, it shows import error as follows:

, line 37, in <module>

    from dolfin import *

ImportError: No module named dolfin

Could anyone please help me?

Thanks,

Amit Jain

[Johannes Ring]

How did you run the script? Did you follow the instructions to either
click on the FEniCS icon in the Applications folder or to source
/Applications/FEniCS.app/Contents/Resources/share/fenics/fenics.conf?
What did you do?

Johannes

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[Amit Jain]

I clicked on the FEniCS icon in application folder, then my terminal window opened automatically with following script and attached dialog box

Amits-MBP:~ amitjain$ /Applications/FEniCS.app/Contents/Resources/bin/fenics-terminal ; exit;

logout

Saving session...

...copying shared history...

...saving history...truncating history files...

...completed.

Deleting expired sessions...none found.

[Process completed]

I put the line "source /Applications/FEniCS.app/Contents/Resources/share/fenics/fenics.conf" in .profile file in home directory. But when I try to run a demo program, I am getting an import error. 

[Johannes Ring]

Well, the screenshot is pretty clear about what the problem is. You
are using Python from /opt/moose/miniconda, which does not work with
the FEniCS binary package.

Johannes

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[Amit Jain]

But when I see python location on PC using command "type -a python"

i get the following outputs

python is /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python

python is /opt/moose/miniconda/bin/python

python is /usr/local/bin/python

python is /usr/bin/python

Does it mean that python is installed in the system but FEniCS could not able to pick it up? Also, please suggest me what I can do to run FEniCS script.

Thanks,

Amit 

[Johannes Ring]

It means that python is installed on the system but it is not the
first python in your PATH. To see which python is first in your PATH,
run `which python`. The output should be "/usr/bin/python" when you
are using the FEniCS package. If it's not, then you have to modify
your PATH.

Johannes

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