Installation of MaxFEM on Debian Jessie

[Umair Ahsun]

Hi,

I am trying to install MaxFEM (maxfem_0.3.4_all.deb) on debian jessie but installation fails due to dependency on missing package python-wxgtk2.8. Here is the output I get after running dpkg command:

Preparing to unpack maxfem_0.3.4_all.deb ...
Unpacking maxfem (0.3.4) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of maxfem:
maxfem depends on python-wxgtk2.8; however:
Package python-wxgtk2.8 is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package maxfem (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.58) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
maxfem

In Debian-jessie python-wxgtk3.0 is installed and there is no link to package python-wxgtk2.8

I would appreciate if can get some help in installing MaxFEM on debian-jessie.

Thanks

[Fran Pena]

Hi,

we will solve this restriction in the next version of MaxFEM. Meanwhile,
you can edit the file ./code/wx_version.py and change the number 2.8 in the
line

wxversion.ensureMinimal("2.8")

by the number of the version you have.

Best regards,
Francisco Pena

[Fran Pena]

Hi,

in my first answer I did not realize that you will have to unpack the
Debian package in order to have access to the sources. Maybe, the easiest
way to modify the code is to:

1. Download the source file maxfem_0.3.4_source.tar.gz from
   http://www.usc.es/en/proxectos/maxfem
2. Change in ./code/wx_version.py the line:
   wxversion.select("2.8")
   by:
   wxversion.ensureMinimal("2.8")
3. Execute make in ./sources/ in order to create new solvers ./solvers/.
   Check the file permissions of the new solvers to guarantee that can be
   executed.
4. You can manually create a direct access to ./code/opennum.py to easily
   open the application.

Just for your information, the Debian package maxfem_0.3.4_all.deb
basically do the following steps:

1. Create in /usr/share/ the folder maxfem with the application content (
   ./solvers/, ./code/, etc.).
2. Create in /usr/share/doc/ the folder maxfem with a copy of changelog.gz
   and copyright.
3. Create a direct access to maxfem in /usr/bin/:
   ln -fs /usr/share/maxfem/code/MaxFEM.py /usr/bin/maxfem
4. Create in /usr/share/applications/ the file MaxFEM.desktop, with the
   content:
   [Desktop Entry]
   Name=MaxFEM
   Version=1.0
   Exec=maxfem
   Comment=Software for electromagnetic simulation
   Icon=/usr/share/maxfem/images/icon.MaxFEM.png
   Type=Application
   Terminal=true
   StartupNotify=true
   Encoding=UTF-8
   Categories=Science;
5. Create executable files in solvers through the command make en
   /usr/share/maxfem/sources/.

Best regards,
Francisco Pena