Installing FEniCS on Docker in MAC/Windows.
This repository contains the docker script containing all the dependencies that are necessary to carry out simulations using FEniCS at CMLab, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India. Download the zip file by clicking on the green Code button above and then follow these instructions. If you have never worked with terminal then I would suggest you first go through this video.
Getting Started
These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.
Installation on Linux
To install in Linux simply run the following commands in terminal:
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fenics-packages/fenics
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends fenics
These commands will just install FEniCS on your system and for all the other dependencies you have to do manual installation.
Prerequisites
To follow along with the examples you need to install docker on your system. You need Windows 10 Education or Professional for this to work. This does not work on Windows 10 Home.
After installation open cmder and then go-to Settings(Win+Alt+P)➡import and choose the cmlab.xml provided in the repository.
Once the docker system in installed and running open CMDER/terminal and run:
- To install the command line interface of FEniCS run:
cd /path/to/this/repo
cd Docker
docker build --target base -t fenics .
- To install the Jyupter notebook interface run:
cd /path/to/this/repo
cd Docker
docker build --target notebook -t fenics_notebook .
Note: you should replace the variable /path/to/this/repo with the path of the folder that contains the Dockerfile. e.g. If D:\Codes\fenics-docker-master contains your code then you have to run: cd D:\Codes\fenics-docker-master
Running
After building the docker image you can start the command line interface by running the following:
docker run -v host_system_path:/root/ -w /root/ -it fenics
To start the notebook use:
docker run -p 8888:8888 -v host_system_path:/root/ -w /root/ fenics_notebook
Note: you should replace the variable host_system_path with the path of the folder that contains your code. e.g. If D:\Codes contains your code then to start the command line interface you have to run:
docker run -v D:\Codes:/root/ -w /root/ -it fenics