Short note: install ALBERTA

ALBERTA is a great tool for adaptive finite element program design.

For introduction to ALBERTA-1.2, see the official website: ALBERTA.

Before you install ALBERTA, make sure you have BLAS and Fortran libs installed in your system. Furthermore, you'd better install gltools and GRAPE first. They are great graphical tools to present your solutions in 2d and 3d.

• For gltools, see gltools website. Version 2-4 works fine in ALBERTA-1.2. For Fedora, you first need to make sure you XFree86-devel package has been properly installed in your systme (it is required by gltools). And you may need to modify Makefile to specify your X11 directory because the default one is X11, but you may have X11R6.

• For GRAPE, see GRAPE website. Whence you have GRAPE and ALBERTA installed together, there will be 4 executable commands you can use to call GRAPE to generate pictures and movies in both 2d and 3d.
  

Now you can begin to install ALBERTA-1.2. To install with gltools and GRAPE, you may use option --with-gltools-dir=... and --with-grape-dir=... to specify the local directories of these two packages. Everything should be smooth and fine. For installation instruction, see INSTALL document in the alberta dirctory. More detailed options can be found in README.