[Gmsh] Installation of jointforces, with GMSH

[Christophe Geuzaine]

> On 4 Jun 2020, at 11:10, Emma Stubbs <STBEMM001 at myuct.ac.za> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am installing joint forces, which utilizes GMSH, and the installation seems to just be paused here:
> 
> Building wheels for collected packages: gmsh-sdk, dill, roipoly
>   Building wheel for gmsh-sdk (setup.py) … |
> 
> Do you have any idea as to why it is pausing at this stage and what can be done to rectify?
> 

We have anecdotal evidence that it might be related to a firewall issue preventing in some cases the download to finish.

Can you try the pypi package "gmsh" instead of "gmsh-sdk"? The "gmsh" package will eventually replace "gmsh-sdk", and uses https instead of http for the download.

Christophe

> Kindest,
> Emma
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