Error while Executing "Make all" code for Quantum Espresso in Colab

[benagastov]

TL;DR Summary

There are some tutorials showing how to install and run Quantum Espresso in both Ubuntu and Google Colab. It seems work fine months ago, now it always show some error and pw.x isn't compiled

Good evening,

Now I start learning Quantum Espresso and I tried to install it on Google Colab, since I already get convenient and its my habit to do all computation in Physics using google Colab. Sometimes I rent cloud gpu if I need bigger RAM and GPU when I have heavy load. You can see the colab here: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1Ntt-uhYk3yGdtEHfHdP4Crbb_H3jaCCn?usp=sharing

It seems like Google Colab had problem with symbolic link, but it also seems because some libraries already installed. You can see the output error under the Colab's code in the beginning.

Meanwhile in the end, there are so many error when I tried to make file for Quantum Espresso, no matter I tried to install different versions of Quantum Espresso. The error still there.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

It's pretty common to run into issues with the Colab virtual machine environment. Just last week I was trying to install Selenium on Colab and it just wouldn't work. Google locks down what you can do. It's likely best to run this locally or run in an instance like Google Run or Amazon EC2.