Installation

FEniCSx can be installed with Anaconda on MacOs and Linux. In order to use the Anaconda distribution on Windows, use the Windows Subsystem for Linux.

Tip

You can install WSL by running wsl --install on a command prompt window. To launch into WSL, simply enter wsl.

Visual Studio Code is the recommended IDE to use with Windows due to the WSL extension.

First install Anaconda,

Tip

You can install Anaconda on most Linux distributions by entering:

curl -O https://repo.anaconda.com/archive/Anaconda3-2024.06-1-Linux-x86_64.sh
bash ./Anaconda3-2024.06-1-Linux-x86_64.sh

You can install other versions by replacing Anaconda3-2024.06-1-Linux-x86_64.sh with another from the official repository.

then run the following commands:

conda create -n festim-env
conda activate festim-env
conda install -c conda-forge festim>=2.0a0