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@@ -130,8 +130,8 @@ Laghos has the following external dependencies:
- *hypre*, used for parallel linear algebra, we recommend version 2.11.2
https://computation.llnl.gov/casc/hypre/software.html
-- METIS, used for parallel domain decomposition (optional), we recommend [version 4.0.3](http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/fetch/sw/metis/OLD/metis-4.0.3.tar.gz)
- http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/metis/metis/download
+- METIS, used for parallel domain decomposition (optional), we recommend [version 4.0.3](https://github.com/mfem/tpls/blob/gh-pages/metis-4.0.3.tar.gz)
+ https://github.com/mfem/tpls
- MFEM, used for (high-order) finite element discretization, its GitHub master branch
https://github.com/mfem/mfem