An error about installing Parallel FEAP8.4 on ubuntu 18.04

[Alan]

Hello,all

I have encountered a fatal error about installing Parallel FEAP8.4 on ubuntu 18.04. That is the following words.

unix/smetis.c:25:10: fatal error: metis.h: No such file or directory
 #include "metis.h"
          ^~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
makefile:123: recipe for target 'unix/smetis.o' failed
make: *** [unix/smetis.o] Error 1

I don't know where is the metis.h? I have installed the PETSc-3.3-p5, Do I need to give a specific path? could you tell me how to fix this problem? Thanks!

[Prof. S. Govindjee]

First I recommend that you upgrade to version 8.6, that will let you also use the newest release of Petsc.  Notwithstanding, metis.h should be in your petsc files assuming you configured petsc with --download-metis.  It should then be found in $PETSC_DIR/$PETSC_ARCH/include (or at least that is where it is located in petsc-3.13.2).  parfeap/makefile auto configures things to look in the petsc include folders.