Hi,

I create a short OpenFOAM®® installation tutorial for Ubuntu 11.04 LTS.
It worked for me. Please if anybody find some errors inside the tutorial
send me PM so I can correct them

regards,

Nebojsa

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Short tutorial for installation of OpenFOAM®®

Install or upgrade 64 bit Ubuntu Natty 11.04

www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/download

Login to the system
Open the Run Application dialog box



Start terminal



Update system:



Install necessary packages:



Check if something is missing for compilation of paraview



Create necessary directories and download OpenFOAM®®:



Create symbolic link for gmake:



Add source to bashrc:



In file ~/OpenFOAM®/OpenFOAM®-1.6-ext/etc/bashrc after the next line:



please insert next line:



Create preference file to define OpenFOAM®® to use system QT libraries:



Edit newly created prefs.sh file:



change line



to



Save file and exit

Update environment:



Change directory to compile necessary libraries:



Execute next commands to compile and install libraries:



Update environment:



Go to the main OpenFOAM®® directory:



Start compile and installation of OpenFOAM®®



Verify installation:



At the end result should look something like..





Test installation with solving icoFoam case



Make mesh



Solve



View result

Thanks, great work!

Hi,
thank you your guide is very valueable.
I prefer to use an "alias startOF16ext"
so I can have mupltiple OF installs, so I created my bashrc like this

echo "alias startOF16ext='unset FOAM_INST_DIR;unset WM_PROJECT_USER_DIR;unset WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR;source ~/OpenFOAM®/OpenFOAM®-1.6-ext/etc/bashrc'" >> ~/.bashrc
echo "startOF16ext" >> ~/.bashrc

start bash again

cd ~/OpenFOAM®/OpenFOAM®-1.6-ext/etc
cp prefs.sh-EXAMPLE prefs.sh


echo "export QT_DIR=/usr/share/qt4" >> ~/OpenFOAM®/OpenFOAM®-1.6-ext/etc/prefs.sh
echo "export QT_BIN_DIR=$QT_DIR/bin" >> ~/OpenFOAM®/OpenFOAM®-1.6-ext/etc/prefs.sh
echo "export PARAVIEW_SYSTEM=1" >> ~/OpenFOAM®/OpenFOAM®-1.6-ext/etc/prefs.sh

foam3rdParty
./AllMake

foam
./Allwmake

just my 2 cents

INSTALLATION GUIDE: OpenFOAM®®-1.6-ext from git repository in DEBIAN SQUEEZE:

For those who use Debian, here you are the errors I found when installing OpenFOAM®®-1.6-ext, and how I fixed them.

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~ $ mkdir OpenFOAM®®
~ $ cd OpenFOAM®®
~/OpenFOAM®® $ git clone git://openfoam-extend.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/openfoam-extend/OpenFOAM®®-1.6-ext

~/OpenFOAM®® $ echo " source ~/OpenFOAM®®/OpenFOAM®®-1.6-ext/etc/bashrc " >> ~/.bashrc
~/OpenFOAM®® $ source ~/.bashrc
~/usr/bin $ ln -s make gmake
~ $ su aptitude install git-core qt4-qmake qt4-dev-tools binutils-dev flex bison build-essential libreadline5-dev wget zlib1g-dev rpm cmake python-dev libxt-dev gnuplot python-numpy libtool autoconf gitk git-gui

~/OpenFOAM®®/OpenFOAM®®-1.6-ext/etc $ cp prefs.sh-EXAMPLE prefs.sh

Edit prefs.sh to specify the path to the system programs:
compilerInstall=System
export WM_COMPILER_DIR=/usr

export QT_DIR=/usr
export QT_BIN_DIR=$QT_DIR/bin

export PARAVIEW_SYSTEM=1
export PARAVIEW_DIR=/home/.../ParaView-3.8.0-RC1-Linuxx86_64/ParaView-3.8.0-RC1-Linux-x86_64
export PARAVIEW_BIN_DIR=$PARAVIEW_DIR/bin



THIRDPARTY COMPILATION:
~/OpenFOAM®®/OpenFOAM®®-1.6-ext/ThirdParty $ ./AllMake

Mesquite-2.1.2 source-code gave some compilation errors. Thus, I have used the latest available version, updating the mesquite version in:

~/OpenFOAM®®/OpenFOAM®®-1.6-ext/ThirdParty/AllMake.stage3: rpm_make -p mesquite-2.99 -s mesquite-2.99.spec -u software.sandia.gov/~jakraft/mesquite-2.99.tar.gz

in /OpenFOAM®®/OpenFOAM®®-1.6-ext/etc/settings.sh :
[ -z "$MESQUITE_SYSTEM" ] && [ -e $WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR/packages/mesquite-2.99/platforms/$WM_OPTIONS ] && { _foamSource $WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR/packages/mesquite-2.99/platforms/$WM_OPTIONS/etc/mesquite-2.99.sh }

and in ~/OpenFOAM®®/OpenFOAM®®-1.6-ext/ThirdParty/rpmBuild/SPECS/ :
mv mesquite-2.1.2.spec mesquite-2.99.spec
vim mesquite-2.99.spec : replace mesquite-2.1.2 with mesquite-2.99 ~/OpenFOAM®® $ cd OpenFOAM®®-1.6-ext/ ./Allwmake

OPENFOAM COMPILATION:
~/OpenFOAM®®/OpenFOAM®®-1.6-ext $ ./Allwmake

At this point, I have fixed the following errors:

Compilation of /OpenFOAM®®/OpenFOAM®®-1.6-ext/src gives the following message:
Error: Mesquite_all_headers.hpp No such file or directory

Add:
-I$(MESQUITE_INCLUDE_DIR) \
and
-L$(MESQUITE_LIB_DIR) \
-lmesquite
to:
/meshMotion/mesquiteMotionSolver/Make/options
/dynamicFvMesh/Make/options


Compile again
~/OpenFOAM®®/OpenFOAM®®-1.6-ext $ ./Allwmake

A new error appears when compiling the /OpenFOAM®®-1.6-ext/applications/:
"
/home/maria/OpenFOAM®®/OpenFOAM®®-1.6-ext/lib/linux64GccDPOpt/openmpi-1.4.3/libPstream.so so try adding it to the linker command line
/home/maria/OpenFOAM®®/OpenFOAM®®-1.6-ext/lib/linux64GccDPOpt/openmpi-1.4.3/libPstream.so: could not read symbols: Invalid operation
"
To fix this: In $WM_DIR/rules/linux64Gcc/c++ change LINKLIBSO and LINKEXE to:

LINKLIBSO = $(CC) $(c++FLAGS) -shared -Xlinker --add-needed
LINKEXE = $(CC) $(c++FLAGS) -Xlinker --add-needed

Compile again
~/OpenFOAM®®/OpenFOAM®®-1.6-ext $ ./Allwmake

Test the installation:
~/OpenFOAM®®/OpenFOAM®®-1.6-ext $ foamInstallationTest
....
Summary
----------------------------------
Base configuration ok.
Critical systems ok.
done.
....
CREATE YOUR RUN DIRECTORY

~/OpenFOAM®® $ mkdir -p $FOAM_RUN

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Every little helps!

María

Hi everyone,
has anybody succeeded in solving the following compiling error (it comes at the very end of the Allmake script run into the ThirdParty directory of OpenFOAM®-1.6-EXT)?

CMake Error at /home/chuang/OpenFOAM®/OpenFOAM®-1.6-ext/ThirdParty/rpmBuild/BUILD/ParaView-3.10.1/CMake/BundleUtilities.cmake:627 (message):
error: fixup_bundle: not a valid bundle
Call Stack (most recent call first):
Applications/ParaView/cmake_install.cmake:80 (fixup_bundle)
Applications/cmake_install.cmake:37 (INCLUDE)
cmake_install.cmake:118 (INCLUDE)

This is the only compilation problem I wasn't able to solve (my machine is an intel i7 quad-core laptop with the 64 bit release of Ubuntu 10.10 installed), as in general the code compiling process seems to be successfully completed (I've also tried some test runs and all works perfectly)

Any help will be appreciated

Best regards

V.

Hi Vesselin,

I also run into some troubles concerning Paraview when compiling the ThirdParty directory. I avoided this problem setting up as default Paraview the one already installed in my system.

If you haven't fix this problem yet, you can try to download Paraview (either binary or source code) and install it in your system. Next you have to modify the file:

~/OpenFOAM®/OpenFOAM®-1.6-ext/etc/prefs.sh

to include:

export PARAVIEW_SYSTEM=1
export PARAVIEW_DIR=/home/.../.../.../ParaView-3.8.0-RC1-Linux-x86_64 (proper path)
export PARAVIEW_BIN_DIR=$PARAVIEW_DIR/bin


María