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: Use YaST to install the C/C++ development pattern in YaST cmake libqt4-devel (required to build paraview) Create a directory called OpenFOAM in your home directory mkdir ~/OpenFOAM Enter the OpenFOAM directory cd ~/OpenFOAM Download the OpenFOAM sources from the GIT repository git clone git://repo.or.cz/OpenFOAM-1.6.x.git Download the third party packages from the OpenCFD website Extract the third party packages corresponding to your architecture in the ~/OpenFOAM directory Rename the ThirdParty-1.6 into ThirdParty-1.6.x Remove the following directories…