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I installed fenics-dev just now! but I can't run the basic demo ! why!?

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The error is like this :

jdx@jdx-Notebook ~ $ source /home/jdx/Work/dev/FEniCS/share/fenics/fenics.conf
jdx@jdx-Notebook ~ $ python
Python 2.7.5+ (default, Feb 27 2014, 19:37:08) 
[GCC 4.8.1] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from dolfin import *
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/jdx/Work/dev/FEniCS/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dolfin/__init__.py", line 16, in <module>
    from . import cpp
  File "/home/jdx/Work/dev/FEniCS/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dolfin/cpp/__init__.py", line 42, in <module>
    exec("from . import %s" % module_name)
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/jdx/Work/dev/FEniCS/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dolfin/cpp/common.py", line 30, in <module>
    _common = swig_import_helper()
  File "/home/jdx/Work/dev/FEniCS/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dolfin/cpp/common.py", line 26, in swig_import_helper
    _mod = imp.load_module('_common', fp, pathname, description)
ImportError: /home/jdx/Work/dev/FEniCS/lib/libdolfin.so.1.4: undefined symbol: _ZN5boost6thread4joinEv
>>> 

Who can tell me why!? thanks!

closed with the note: Please send this question to the FEniCS support mailing list: http://fenicsproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fenics-support
asked Nov 27, 2014 by motianlunfenics FEniCS Novice (310 points)
closed Nov 27, 2014 by johannr
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