Installing OpenFOAM® on openSUSE 11.2 is very easy, and can be done using, at least in part, the system tools, to take advantage of the new compiler. The steps of the procedure are the following:
and source your ~/.bashrc file with the command (thanks to friesenjunge 
)
This will rebuild the whole OpenFOAM and paraview, and provide you a fully working installation. However, the paraFoam reader might have some problem to properly show results in paraview. I could not solve them, however there is an alternative reader available on the OpenFOAM unofficial wiki, that can be compiled as follows. Note that the installation procedure assumes you have OpenFOAM 1.6.x installed and properly configured as explained above, and that paraview has been compiled successfully on your system.
Enjoy
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Hi Alberto,
I am getting the following error while trying to install OpenFOAM. Can you give me some feedback. I have installed teh C++ pattern, cmake and libqt4-develop packages. I have done the git pull and followed the steps. When i try to make paraview i am getting the following error. Kindly help me out
pradeep@linux-giny:~/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-1.6.x> ./makeParaView
did not find paraview- in these directories:
PWD=/home/pradeep/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-1.6.x
WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR=
abort build
pradeep@linux-giny:~/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-1.6.x>
Did you install the ThirdParty packages?
how long compilation process takes on a Intel Dual-Core 1.86 Ghz? I’d like to know if i can compile OpenFoam with my laptop. Regards
Hi Emanuele,
as a rough estimate, a couple of hours. However, yes, you can build it on your laptop. I do that too.
With kind regards,
A.
It works. If i wann update what i have to do? These two commands??
git pull
./Allmake
Thanks for your help.
Hi,
yes, that’s correct. Sometime you might need to clean your installation before running ./Allwmake. In such a case you can use
wcleanLnIncludeAll
which might be sufficient, or
wcleanAll
and then ./Allwmake
regarding
did not find paraview- in these directories:
PWD=/home/pradeep/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-1.6.x
WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR=
you forget to load the environment variables
. /home/yourname/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6.x/etc/bashrc
hope this helps
Cheers
Hi and thanks for your message. Actually the environment variables are set by the following step, which is essential to the build process:
Open your ~/.bashrc file in a text editor and add the line:
* . $HOME/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6.x/etc/bashrc
This line is identical to what you suggested, but does not depend on the username.
About paraview, if you install both the general and platform-specific third-party packages, you should have paraview in your ThirdParty directory.
Best,
Alberto
Hi Alberto,
my solution was posted under the impression that you wanted to carry out all the actions in one terminal session. For your solution one would have to logout and than login again, which seems to have lead to the error in the first place. Maybe you could just add a line saying “you have to login (best you close the terminal and start a new one to carry on) again for changes to take affect”
Cheers and a happy new year to you,
Steffen
Hi Alberto!
Thanks for your instructions. For me there is one question left:
I ´m not sure what “Remove the following directories from the ThirdParty directory containing cmake gcc” actually means. In my case there is only a directory named “gcc-4.3.3″ inside ~/OpenFOAM/Third-1.6.x/. Is this the only one that has to be deleted?
Thanks in advance!
Sebastian
Hi Sebastian,
yes, gcc is the only directory you have on 64 bit.
Best,
Alberto
Thanks Alberto! Great work, the compilation was successful!
Information for others:
machine: 2 x AMD 2354 on Asus KFN32-D SLI 16 Gb RAM running with openSUSE 11.2 2.6.31.8-0.1-desktop
Sir Thank You very much for the detailed installation steps.I have also a remedy for paraview for the current installation
First Installed paraview data from this site:
http://teodori.org/repository/vtk/opensuse11.2/older/x86_64/paraview-data-3.6.1-2.x86_64.html
Then I installed Paraview from this site
http://teodori.org/repository/vtk/opensuse11.2/older/x86_64/paraview-data-3.6.1-2.x86_64.html
Then I did the instructions given by you
Than You very muchh for detailed steps and also best regards
Krishna
Thank You so much for this guide. It works and solve my problems with working with the binary files.
Great job
David
Thanks a lot Alberto. Everything works fine now. I followed your guide, but had to do some extra work.
After the Installation of OpenFoam I ran the FoamInstallationTest. The result was:
WARNING: Conflicting installations:
foam settings: /bin/gcc
current path : /usr/bin/gcc
CRITICAL ERROR
To solve the problem I had to add “export WM_64=on” in the .bashrc file and “WM_COMPILER_DIR=/usr” after the “export WM_COMPILER_ARCH=” entry in the bashrc file in the OpenFOAM directory.
Then when running paraFoam I got the error message: /home/OpenFOAM//OpenFOAM-1.6/bin/paraFoam: line 109: 22727 Abandon paraview –data=”$caseFile
So besides your suggested VTK Reader I installed the PV3FoamReader according to the README of OpenFOAM. And now I have no error message and actually see results. Great!
when I do source ~/.bashrc
-bash: /root/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6.x/bin/foamCleanPath: No such file or directory
-bash: /root/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6.x/bin/foamCleanPath: No such file or directory
-bash: /root/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6.x/bin/foamCleanPath: No such file or directory
-bash: /root/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6.x/etc/settings.sh: No such file or directory
-bash: /root/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6.x/etc/aliases.sh: No such file or directory
-bash: /root/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6.x/etc/apps/paraview3/bashrc: No such file or directory
-bash: /root/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6.x/etc/apps/ensight/bashrc: No such file or directory
-bash: /root/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6.x/bin/foamCleanPath: No such file or directory
-bash: /root/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6.x/bin/foamCleanPath: No such file or directory
-bash: /root/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6.x/bin/foamCleanPath: No such file or directory
Is it ok ?
Hi Hector,
No it’s not correct
Why do you have OpenFOAM in a directory called /root ? It should be in /home//OpenFOAM or you should specify the installation directory as explained in the README file.
I would also check if those files are present in the directory tree of OpenFOAM, after you extract the files.
Best,
Alberto
I have this problem to run foamInstallationTest
gcc 4.4.1
WARNING: Conflicting installations:
OpenFOAM settings : /bin/gcc
current path : /usr/bin/gcc
CRITICAL ERROR
gzip 1.3.12 /usr/bin/gzip
tar 1.21 /bin/tar
icoFoam
WARNING: Conflicting installations:
OpenFOAM settings : /root/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6.x/applications/bin/linux64GccDPOpt/icoFoam
current path :
CRITICAL ERROR
You have a conflict in your installation according to that test. What happens when you try to run icoFoam on its tutorial?
Thank you Alberto for your installation guide, especially the one for paraview. I tried the whole day installing paraview with the openfoam’s own reader but it didnt work. Then I found your guidelines and the compilation worked with no problems.
Greetings, Michael (old friend of Jaswi)
I followed your instructions and successfully compiled OF.
Unfortunately when I type “paraFoam” i get: /home/kressnt/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6.x/bin/paraFoam: Line 133: paraview: commando not found.