# FeniCs on Apple silicon M1

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**Created:** [March 30, 2021, 2:35pm UTC](https://fenicsproject.discourse.group/t/fenics-on-apple-silicon-m1/5471 "2021-03-30T14:35:49Z")\
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You can install both packages.  
Gmsh is installed on amd systems by unzipping a binary: [dolfinx/Dockerfile at main · FEniCS/dolfinx · GitHub](https://github.com/FEniCS/dolfinx/blob/main/docker/Dockerfile#L194)  
so you might have to install gmsh from source (gmsh is pip installable, but does not always work out of the box). For more info on gmsh see: [Gmsh: a three-dimensional finite element mesh generator with built-in pre- and post-processing facilities](https://gmsh.info/#Download)

For pyvista, see: [Plot functions in dolfinx - #5 by dokken](https://fenicsproject.discourse.group/t/plot-functions-in-dolfinx/5452/5)

Pyvistaqt requires some extra packages:

```auto
apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends python3-pyqt5 libgl1-mesa-glx # pyvistaqt
pip3 install pyvista pyvistaqt

```

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