GMSH

[Christophe Geuzaine]

> Dear Dr. Remacle,
> I'm a PhD student in Applied Mathematics and I'm planning to use
> GMSH in order to generate the mesh for my test cases.
> 
> I've got two problems with GMSH:
> 1) I can't install the .rpm package
> on my Linux machine,
> since when I try to install it I get
> the message:
> 
> failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
> error: cannot open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
> 

Hi,

You must be superuser (root) to install the rpm package. So just type
'su' (and the root password) before installing Gmsh.

> (is the double // the problem?)
> 
> So I've downloaded the tar files and this works
> but I've not the man pages you say are
> included in the .rpm package.
> Is it possible to have the man pages
> in another way ?(otherwise I can't understand
> how it works, even if i've looked at the demo)
> 
> 2) I've tried to produce a gif image
> with the appropriate command
> but everything has blocked
> (the file .gif has been created but
> it is empty)
> What' s wrong with that?
> 

Well, gif output sometimes mysteriously fails (I'll have to check this).
If you really want bitmap output, you can still grab the window, e.g.
with xv or gimp. I'm planning a new release of Gmsh with a lot of bug
fixes and really many performance improvements next month.

My best,

-- 
Christophe Geuzaine

Tel: 32 (0) 4 366 37 10    http://geuz.org
Fax: 32 (0) 4 366 29 10    mailto:Christophe.Geuzaine at ulg.ac.be