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I'm trying to install MPICH2 on a ubuntu server installation (7.04 fiesty fawn). This is for a Beowulf cluster.

I have so far been unable to install it for two reasons.

1) under the root account: 

apt-get install mpich2

yields the following: 

Package mpich2 is not available, but is referred to by another package 
E: Package mpich2 has no installation candidate

2) When installing from a tar ball using the following instructions from cd /mirror

mkidr mpich2
tar xvf mpich2_1.3.1.orig.tar.gz (creates directory /mirror/mpich2-1.3.1)
cd mpich2­-1.3.1
./configure --­prefix=/mirror/mpich2
make
sudo make install

everything goes fine until make, where i am informed:

make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

there is a small indent on my desk shaped curiously like my forehead. What do you suppose I do to get this bloody software installed?

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Re. your second question: What is the last thing on your screen after running ./configure? I bet everything did not go fine (if everything went fine you would have a Makefile. If you have no Makefile configure probably failed to complete successfully.) – voretaq7♦ Jul 21 '11 at 21:11
I realized that using such an old version is why the repositories don't have mpich2 anymore. will try again with newer versions, both with apt-get and the tarball. – kyoung Jul 21 '11 at 21:16
ah, I didn't even notice you were on Feisty -- yeah, that's a bit ancient :-) – voretaq7♦ Jul 21 '11 at 21:23
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Re: (1) -

  1. Are you sure you have the appropriate apt repository configured? (I'm not sure where this lives, but here is a list of the repos for Natty).
  2. Have you done apt-get update to make sure your package lists are up to date?
  3. Have you tried apt-cache search MPI in case the package was renamed?

Re: (2) -
See comment above.

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