Dear Madam/Sir,

I am a senior undergraduate student from Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, China.

I've been trying many times to install ALPS 2.0.3 on my Ubuntu 11.10 Desktop but I failed. I will appreciate if you could help me fix the problems so that I can use python to run ALPS.

7. After make test, there come some errors:
98% tests passed, 2 tests failed out of 99

Total Test time (real) =  16.81 sec

The following tests FAILED:
     23 - test_vector (Failed)
     40 - lattice_constant_test (Failed)

The lattice_constant_test can be ignored, but please run the test_vector executable (./test/fixed_capacity/test_vector from the build directory) and send us the output.

Errors while running CTest
make: *** [test] Error 8

8. After make install, there are also some errors:
CMake Error at cmake_install.cmake:54 (FILE):
  file cannot create directory: /usr/bin/vistrails/packages.  Maybe need
  administrative privileges.

Yes, you need to use

sudo make install

9. Now I still cannot run ALPS on my laptop (dmft-02-hybridization):
alpspython tutorial2a.py
alpspython: command not found

You need to add the ALPS installation to your path.

python tutorial2a.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "tutorial2a.py", line 27, in <module>
    import pyalps
ImportError: No module named pyalps

You need to use either alpspython, or install pyalps into your system python directory.

dmft hybrid.param
No command 'dmft' found, did you mean:
 Command 'mft' from package 'texlive-binaries' (main)
dmft: command not found

You need to add the ALPS installation to your path.

Best regards

Matthias Troyer