# Freefem Installation

**URL:** <https://community.freefem.org/t/freefem-installation/3559>\
**Category:** FreeFEM installation\
**Created:** [October 23, 2024, 9:54am UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/freefem-installation/3559 "2024-10-23T09:54:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Giuseppe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.freefem.org/giuseppe/32/2724_2.png) [@Giuseppe](https://community.freefem.org/u/Giuseppe)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2024, 9:54am UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/freefem-installation/3559/1 "2024-10-23T09:54:34Z")

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Dear community,

I am a new entry in the FreeFem world and I am very excited!

I am trying to install Freefem from the fully reset wsl2 on Windows 11 and I am having troubles doing the compilation on Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS. I am following the guide from the readme on the freefem github repository for the ubuntu compilation.

In particular, from when I run ‘./3rdparty/getall -a’ , I get some failed connections due to expired links (I followed all the previous instructions and I didn’t have any problems, all the packages where downloaded successfully). For example, it fails to download boost\_for\_bemtool.tar.gz, mshmet.2012.04.25.tgz and others. If needed I can provide the full list.

I also tried to move forward and see if I could still compile: I was able to download petsc and slepc and compile them, but when I got to run ‘-j4 && make -j4 check’, it gave me some errors regarding some missing packages from the ./getall instruction.

I was still able to download the whole software and run it from windows, but for personal reasons I would rather use it on the wsl.

Any idea on how I can solve this? Thank you in advance!

Best regards,  
Giuseppe

My PC specific:

- Windows 11
- WSL 2
- Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
- Kernel version: 5.15.153.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2

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**Author:** ![prj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecae2f/32.png) [@prj](https://community.freefem.org/u/prj)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2024, 10:24am UTC](https://community.freefem.org/t/freefem-installation/3559/2 "2024-10-23T10:24:49Z")

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See related GitHub issue [Dependency management when building from source is not quite perfect. · Issue #318 · FreeFem/FreeFem-sources · GitHub](https://github.com/FreeFem/FreeFem-sources/issues/318) (there are many other similar issues, and the fix is always the same).