Jupyter Notebook Unable to Configure and Install Library

Question

I am trying to install exafmm to use in Python 3.8 using Jupyter notebook.

It should be simple, and so I don't know what the problem is. I've been stuck and unable to solve this. When I run the code, I get the error

File "<ipython-input-8-d0f090c60924>", line 3
    ./configure
    ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

    !git clone https://github.com/exafmm/exafmm-t.git
    %cd exafmm-t
    ./configure
    make
    make install

I have tried putting sudo in front of ./configure.

Answer 1

Well, since you are planning to use this library with python and jupyter notebook, I guess you should not build this library from the source code. As per their documentation, this approach is only necessary for the users who want to use exafmm-t in C++ applications (reference: https://exafmm.github.io/exafmm-t/compile.html#install-exafmm-t)

Try running the following bash command in your notebook (reference https://exafmm.github.io/exafmm-t/compile.html#install-exafmm-t-s-python-package):

! pip install git+https://github.com/exafmm/exafmm-t.git