How to install old FEniCS version 1.1

Question

I am continuing the development of an in-house code that depends on FEniCS version 1.1. Before updating the code to a newer FEniCS version I first have to get acquainted with our in-house code and therefore specifically need version 1.1.

Where can I obtain version 1.1 and what would be the recommended way to install that specific version.

Thanks in advance!

ps: I am on Kubuntu 14.04 (aka Trusty Tahr), it has the exact same repositories as Ubuntu 14.04.

Answer 1

You can find older releases of fenics in this link: older releases of fenics

In the same page (or in the link of fenics 1.1 for ubuntu) you can find instructions about how to install the package.

Answer 2

FEniCS 1.1 is available in the FEniCS PPA, but unfortunately not for Ubuntu 14.04. The easiest would probably be to install Ubuntu 12.04 in a virtual machine and then install FEniCS 1.1 from the FEniCS PPA.

Alternatively, you can download Dorsal and checkout the commit from where we updated to the 1.1 release:

git clone https://bitbucket.org/fenics-project/dorsal-retired.git
cd dorsal-retired
git checkout 59d8e08d2b14f90df675a7ef080a310a2f7d9eab

Note that Dorsal has been retired for a while and is no longer supported.

Comments

Hi johannr, thank you for your reply and sorry for my late response.

According to the previous developer of the in-house code there was an issue with FEniCS 1.1 from the PPA. He could not get his code to run using the PPA. Instead he installed FEniCS at that time using dorsal. Is it possible to obtain the source of FEniCS 1.1 such that I can compile it from scratch?

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Please see the updated answer.