Installation Failure of Firdrake on CentOS Linux

[chenglong92]

I am new to firedrake, and noticed that only windows and Ubuntu Linux are mentioned to be well supported. Is it possible to install Firedrake on CentOS system? I came cross the "apt-get" error like below information.

Running scripts/firedrake-install
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "scripts/firedrake-install", line 1693, in <module>
    check_call(["apt-get", "--version"])
  File "scripts/firedrake-install", line 666, in check_call
    log.debug(subprocess.check_output(arguments, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, env=os.environ).decode())
  File "/home/chenglong/archiconda3/envs/py37_compiler/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 415, in check_output
    return run(*popenargs, stdout=PIPE, timeout=timeout, check=True,
  File "/home/chenglong/archiconda3/envs/py37_compiler/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 493, in run
    with Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs) as process:
  File "/home/chenglong/archiconda3/envs/py37_compiler/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 858, in __init__
    self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
  File "/home/chenglong/archiconda3/envs/py37_compiler/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 1704, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename)
OSError: [Errno 8] Exec format error: 'apt-get'


Install log saved in /home/chenglong/CompilerStudy/DSL/firedrake-master/firedrake-install.log

[connorjward]

Installation on other Linux distros should work (e.g. I use Arch and have no issues). The trick is to make sure that all of the system dependencies (see this page) are installed first and then pass --no-package-manager to firedrake-install.