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Debian 8 (jessie) - dolfin import error

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I have installed the fenics package from the default Debian 8 (jessie) repository by executing the command "apt-get install fenics" (with root privileges), but cannot use it.

After running ipython (5.1.0) and typing "import fenics" results in an error: (output here). I have also tried "from dolfin import *" (in ipython too) and got exactly the same message. Trying to import the same module twice leads to segmentation fault.

What's wrong? I have Python 2.7.12+ and Python 3.5.2+ installed.

asked Nov 8, 2016 by wherever FEniCS Novice (190 points)

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It was enough to execute:

apt-get install -y libfftw3-double3 libfftw3-single3 libfftw3-long3 libfftw3-dev
answered Nov 9, 2016 by wherever FEniCS Novice (190 points)
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