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I have upgraded from ubuntu 13.10 to 14.04 and Dolfin doesnt work, how may I solve that problem?

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asked Apr 23, 2014 by iafleischer FEniCS Novice (110 points)

You may downgrade back to 13.10!

Or you can tell us a bit more about the problem...
as a first step, try uninstalling and reinstalling.

Thanks for the answer, already tried the - uninstalling -installing back.
Didn't work.
Also modified a package (swig to an older version), some demos started to run well, but membrane1.py demo gives this warning


Error: Unable to generate ellipse mesh.
*** Reason: Generation of ellipse meshes requires DOLFIN to be configured with CGAL.

*** Where: This error was encountered inside EllipseMesh.cpp.

Hmmm... there was recently a fenics-support issue regarding swig incompatibilities that was resolved by removing the ~/.instant folder (which I think can also be accomplished by issues the command 'instant-clean' ). Could you try that?
When you run a model parts are compiled and stored in the ~/.instant folder. By removing them you are forcing everything to recompile, which may resolve some of this.

Cheers,
Mike

Mike,
I did it. The problems persists. Though running fenics in Ubuntu 12.04, everything goes fine.

Regards,

Igor

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