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+name: Run preCICE Solverdummies
+on:
+  push:
+      
+jobs:  
+  run_solverdummies:
+    name: Run solverdummies
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    container: precice/precice
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout Repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2      
+      - name: Install Dependencies
+        run: |
+          apt-get -qq update
+          apt-get -qq install software-properties-common python3-dev python3-pip git apt-utils
+          rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+      - name: Install bindings
+        run:  pip3 install --user .
+      - name: Check whether preCICE was built with MPI  # reformat version information as a dict and check whether preCICE was compiled with MPI
+        run: python3 -c "import precice; assert({item.split('=')[0]:item.split('=')[-1] for item in str(precice.get_version_information()).split(';')}['PRECICE_MPICommunication']=='Y')"
+      - name: Run solverdummies
+        run: | 
+          cd solverdummy/
+          python3 solverdummy.py precice-config.xml SolverOne MeshOne & python3 solverdummy.py precice-config.xml SolverTwo MeshTwo