The Homebrew recipe for Elmer was developed by Juhani Kataja. The task should be accomplished quite swiftly.
$ brew tap elmercsc/homebrew-elmerfem $ brew install elmer --HEAD --with-elmerice
Dropping the option –with-elmerice
would leave out Elmer/Ice routines (but that is most likely what you do not want to do, reading these instructions). An additional –with-elmergui
would include the graphical user interface of Elmer. As there are quite a few dependencies, one can expect the first installation to last for quite a while (so don't worry). The final installation is then to be found under /usr/local/Cellar/elmer/
Updating Elmer/Ice should be equally easy. To get a renewed version from the initial installation above, just type
$ brew reinstall elmer --HEAD --with-elmerice
.