Error at installation

[madalina-phys]

My installation gets the following error when running pip install --no-binary h5py 'firedrake[check]':

pip install --no-binary h5py 'firedrake[check]'
Collecting firedrake[check]
Using cached firedrake-2025.4.0.tar.gz (1.7 MB)
Installing build dependencies ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [24 lines of output]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/madalinaphys/Software/Firedrake/venv-firedrake/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 353, in
main()
File "/home/madalinaphys/Software/Firedrake/venv-firedrake/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 335, in main
json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/home/madalinaphys/Software/Firedrake/venv-firedrake/lib/python3.12/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 118, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
return hook(config_settings)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-hd1j76h2/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 331, in get_requires_for_build_wheel
return self._get_build_requires(config_settings, requirements=[])
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-hd1j76h2/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 301, in _get_build_requires
self.run_setup()
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-hd1j76h2/overlay/lib/python3.12/site-packages/setuptools/build_meta.py", line 317, in run_setup
exec(code, locals())
File "", line 286, in
File "", line 275, in make_firedrake_check_package
File "/usr/lib/python3.12/shutil.py", line 435, in copy
copyfile(src, dst, follow_symlinks=follow_symlinks)
File "/usr/lib/python3.12/shutil.py", line 260, in copyfile
with open(src, 'rb') as fsrc:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'Makefile'
[end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Getting requirements to build wheel did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> See above for output.

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.

The installation procedure was followed step-by-step.
I am running on Ubuntu 24. Can somebody help me debug? Thank you!

[connorjward]

Ahh. Looks like the PyPI package doesn't work properly (we released it for the first time yesterday). I will fix that tomorrow but for now you can avoid this by running

pip install --no-binary h5py 'firedrake @ git+https://github.com/firedrakeproject/firedrake.git@release#[check]'

[madalina-phys]

Thank you! It works now!