gfortran package dependency missing

[Risto H. Kurppa]

Installed package elmer on Kubuntu 10.04.2

Trying to start elmer from menu dies.
Trying elmerf90, elmerf90-nosh and elmerld from CLI also die:

kurppa@el-kone:~$ elmerf90
gfortran -I/build/buildd/elmerfem-5.5.0.svn.4262.dfsg/debian/tmp/usr/include -fPIC -fPIC -I. -Ibinio -I/usr/include/mpi -I/usr/share/elmersolver/include -shared

/usr/bin/elmerf90: 19: gfortran: not found
kurppa@el-kone:~$ elmerf90-nosh
gfortran -I/build/buildd/elmerfem-5.5.0.svn.4262.dfsg/debian/tmp/usr/include -fPIC -fPIC -I. -Ibinio -I/usr/include/mpi -I/usr/share/elmersolver/include

/usr/bin/elmerf90-nosh: 18: gfortran: not found
kurppa@el-kone:~$

But after installing the package gfortran they work:

kurppa@el-kone:~$ elmerf90
gfortran -I/build/buildd/elmerfem-5.5.0.svn.4262.dfsg/debian/tmp/usr/include -fPIC -fPIC -I. -Ibinio -I/usr/include/mpi -I/usr/share/elmersolver/include -shared
gfortran: no input files

kurppa@el-kone:~$ elmerf90-nosh
gfortran -I/build/buildd/elmerfem-5.5.0.svn.4262.dfsg/debian/tmp/usr/include -fPIC -fPIC -I. -Ibinio -I/usr/include/mpi -I/usr/share/elmersolver/include
gfortran: no input files

kurppa@el-kone:~$ elmerld
gfortran -shared -L/usr/lib -lelmersolver
gfortran: no input files
kurppa@el-kone:~$

To me it looks like that gfortran should be installed along elmer.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: elmer 5.5.0.svn.4262.dfsg-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-30.59-generic 2.6.32.29+drm33.13
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-30-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Apr 18 10:49:21 2011
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.2)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: elmerfem

[Brice Marnier (brice-marnier)]

Same problem in Ubuntu natty (11.04)

As Risto said, I think it's a distribution problem, installing gfortran package solves the issue.

Note for first-timers (like me) using elmer : elmerf90, elmerf90-nosh, elmerld are not meant to be launched by hand (unless you know what you're doing I guess), but you should use Elmer* binaries (starting with an uppercase E), and particularily ElmerGUI; also availble from Ubuntu menu.

[Jalakas (jalakas)]

Still active in Precise.

[Tehnick (tehnick)]

Could you describe a problem in more detail?

Which packages are installed?
$ dpkg -l | grep elmer

> Trying to start elmer from menu dies.

Have you tried to launch menu item "Elmer logger"?
Or was it another menu item?

Also you can try to launch directly .desktop file:
/usr/share/applications/ElmerGUIlogger.desktop

> To me it looks like that gfortran should be installed along elmer.

You are rigth. But package libelmer-dev should depend on gfortran, not package elmer.

Program elmerf90 is a part of package libelmer-dev:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/i386/libelmer-dev/filelist

And package libelmer-dev depends on gfortran since Ubuntu Quantal:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/libelmer-dev

So this bug affects only Ubuntu Precise and earlier releases:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/libelmer-dev
http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/libelmer-dev

> Note for first-timers (like me) using elmer : elmerf90, elmerf90-nosh, elmerld are not meant to be launched by hand (unless you know what you're doing I guess), but you should use Elmer* binaries (starting with an uppercase E), and particularily ElmerGUI; also availble from Ubuntu menu.

Exactly.

[Risto H. Kurppa (risto.kurppa)]

On Kubuntu 12.04 I installed the package elmer and it seems to start without any issues from menu / CLI using ElmerGUI.

Package gfortran is/was not installed.

I'm OK with closing this bug as invalid/fixed.

[Tehnick (tehnick)]

In fact this bug report is not invalid. But it is just very minor. And it is not enough to prepare updated packages with trivial fix.

Let's mark it as fixed in Quantal.