I know the current package works, it's just I should have named it calculix-ccx which would have been more obvious than just ccx.I didn't know that. After all I just repackaged cblt2l's Debian package almost as is (just edited the changelog file).sgrogan wrote:Your build supports multi-threading (I just got it working reliably for me) I not sure if the others do.
The calculix packages in the CAE Team are simple copies of the ones in gabriel1984sibiu's "Aplicatii3" PPA. How I know this: on the CAE Team PPA page, click on the "View package details" link at the right, then expand one of the calculix-ccx packages. It says so in the "Publishing details".sgrogan wrote:Could you suggest which to test? Are they exact copies? (Pardon my linux ignorance)
The binary packages are listed a little below under "Package files". The .dsc file is a PGP-signed text file. The .tar.gz file contains the source, and one of the .deb files is the one you'll want to install, depending on your architecture (amd64 for 64-Bit OS and i386 for 32-Bit). You can download the packages manually instead of adding the PPA to your software sources.
Just remember to download the right package for your Ubuntu version; if it's 14.04 64-Bit, then download "calculix-ccx_2.7-0~1+6~ubuntu14.04.1_amd64.deb". Debian packages are built from system libraries, which tend to change between Ubuntu releases. So in most cases, a package built for a specific Ubuntu release won't be compatible with another: the 14.04 package will not be compatible with Ubuntu 12.04, 14.10 or 15.04.
Once you've downloaded the .deb package, you can double-click on it and this will open the Ubuntu Software Center, which will allow you to install it; or you can install it from the terminal using dpkg (which I don't use). I usually install downloaded deb packages with the GDebi utility (not installed by default). Note, I'm pretty sure you will have to uninstall my ccx package because it will conflict with their calculix-ccx.
It's best to copy a package to our own PPA, because it means the user is not required to add a secondary PPA to their software sources. When I first made OCE packages for the Daily Builds PPA, I created a separate PPA (OCE Releases), but I quickly found it was a hassle for users. I had added it as a PPA dependency to the Daily Builds, which meant that the freecad packages were built with my OCE packages; but when the switch was made, it broke the updates for those users who weren't aware of the change; they still had the official Ubuntu repo older OCE packages, which were conflicting with the freecad packages.sgrogan wrote:I don't know that you have to copy the build at all, we can point the user to their PPA
Another reason to copy packages, is you never know if the PPA owner will decide to delete packages or even the whole PPA repo.
Not sure what you meant, but you cannot inherit somebody else's PPA.sgrogan wrote:(otherwise you may inherit it)
Thanks, but you should thank cblt2l for the original Debian package and wmayer for figuring out what was needed regarding netgen.sgrogan wrote:Thank You for expending the massive effort to make FEM more easily functional on Ubuntu!
So the Calculix version with the Windows install is even older...sgrogan wrote:BTW: The Win cygwin build bundled with 0.15 release is 2.6.x
