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Derek Gaston edited this page Feb 21, 2014 · 1 revision

libMesh (https://github.com/libMesh/libmesh) is an open source finite element library that MOOSE heavily relies on. Because of this tight dependency, a version of libMesh that has been vetted by the MOOSE team is distributed directly with MOOSE. From time to time the MOOSE team will send notices out (using the moose-users mailing list) telling you that libMesh has been changed you need to rebuild it as detailed below.

Updating/Building libMesh

After installing the MOOSE packages and setting up your environment or if the MOOSE team has announced that libMesh needs to be rebuilt the only thing you need to do to is go into the "moose" directory and issue the following command:

scripts/update_and_rebuild_libmesh.sh
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