Trying to install ASPECT in Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS

ASPECT
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Hello everyone,

I am finding this issure when trying to run source ./candi.sh (I also tried ./candi.sh) with local.cfg downloaded, and this error appears:

“candi tries now to download, configure, build and install:

Project: deal.II-toolchain
Platform: deal.II-toolchain/platforms/supported/ubuntu.platform

Loading dealii-prepare
Fetching cmake 3.26.4
Verifying cmake-3.26.4-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
cmake-3.26.4-linux-x86_64.tar.gz: OK(md5)
cmake-3.26.4-linux-x86_64.tar.gz already downloaded and verified.
Unpacking cmake-3.26.4-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
Building cmake 3.26.4
Info: cmake has forced BUILDCHAIN=ignore.
-bash: ./candi_configure: Permission denied
Failure with exit status: 126
Exit message: There was a problem configuring cmake 3.26.4.
Connection to 147.96.22.188 closed.”,

and even takes me out of the server session. Does anybody know what should be done in this case?

Thank you!

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How did you download the candi repository? You will need to use ./candi.sh (without using source), see GitHub - dealii/candi: candi - (Compile & Install) - Downloads, configures, builds and installs deal.II or Using candi to compile dependencies — ASPECT 3.1.0-pre

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I used the command git clone GitHub - dealii/candi: candi - (Compile & Install) - Downloads, configures, builds and installs deal.II , following Using candi to compile dependencies — ASPECT 3.1.0-pre . Using ./candi.sh without using source was giving me a Permission denied error.

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What is the precise command with arguments that you are running? What path are you installing to?

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I have only tried “git clone https://github.com/dealii/candi”, then I downloaded local.cfg from the repository to my local computer and moved it to the server I am working with via scp, within the candi directory. Then, I did “cd candi” and “./candi.sh”. I didn’t set an installation path because I also tried setting one, and it wasn’t working either, I thought this was simpler way.

I checked all the permits to work are set, but still not me nor any other user (admin included) can make the “Permission denied“ error disappear.

Thank you again,

Patricia

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You might have copied files incorrectly (or without the correct permissions). I would suggest you do the git clone directly on the machine where you want to use it.

Secondly, If it is a server, you might not be able to write the output to the default installation directory (the home directory). I would suggest you specify an absolute path to some folder where you know you can write to.

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Thank you, the problem is fixed now. I think the issue was the noexec status of /home in my server, that made ./candi.sh impossible to run. When trying the same thing but in /tmp, it did run. Thank you very much for your help :slight_smile: