Installation issues for fenics version (2:0.4.1.2) about fenics-adapter HOT 5 OPEN

Given a clean jammy container

docker run --rm -it ubuntu:jammy

The following commands succeeded:

apt update
apt-get install software-properties-common
add-apt-repository ppa:fenics-packages/fenics
apt-get update
apt-get install fenics

apt install wget
wget https://github.com/precice/precice/releases/download/v2.5.0/libprecice2_2.5.0_jammy.deb
apt install ./libprecice2_2.5.0_jammy.deb

apt install git pip
git clone https://github.com/precice/fenics-adapter.git
cd fenics-adapter
pip install .
python3 -c "import fenicsprecice"
cd ..

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/precice/tutorials.git
cd tutorials/partitioned-heat-conduction/fenics
./run.sh -d & ./run.sh -n

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I (unintentionally) reproduced the problem on my Ubuntu 20.04 system. After a lot of very messy back and forth I think I got things working now. The solution is similar to the suggestion in this post. There might be some residuals of ffc in /home/username/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages. Removing them via rm -r ufl ffc should do the trick.

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If you want to bring yourself into trouble: Run $ pip3 install --user fenics_ffc==2019.1.0.post0. This should reproduce the error above.
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I also tried out the commands stated above by @fsimonis in a clean Ubuntu 22.04 container and the adapter seems to work. The adapter also works if fenicsprecice is installed directly via pip.

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If the pip packages are such a nightmare, couldn't we define conflicts in the setup.py of the fenics adapter?

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Would be great to improve the situation with technical means, but I don't have the time to work on this at the moment. But I will reopen this issue and attach the help wanted label.

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