Salome® is a very powerful open source integrated platform for numerical simulations, including an advanced computational code, called Code Aster®. My interest in Salome is due to its geometry generation capabilities, because it integrates a versatile CAD and a mesher, with automatic generation of hexahedral and tetrahedral meshes. The geometry generation is very useful also to create .stl files to use with tools like OpenFOAM® snappyHexMesh automatic mesh generator. Installing Salome from sources might be challenging, and packaging it for a specific distribution represents a lot of work. However, an alternative and easier way to install Salome on a Linux system is represented by the self-contained package Salome-Meca, which can…