Installation with local PETSc

The end of the log reads:

      Warning accessing /home/erothe/.local/bin gives errors: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/erothe/.local/bin'
      /home/erothe/bin: slmodules z50_slmodules.ng.sh~ z50_slmodules.ng.sh

What’s up with your system? Is this a cluster? Are you doing this on a compute node or connection node?

Could you try the develop branch of FreeFEM instead?