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Hi Bruno,

I am trying to install OpenFOAM 1.7.1 on Redhat 5 linux. It has Gcc4.1.x. Would the steps given above of ubuntu linux will work in my case. Are the steps of checking the flex, flex++, FlexLexer.h., libreadline5-dev, texinfo, byacc and bison would be the same as given above. I am a new user of linux and know only basic commands and operations. Could you please help me or please give me the systematic steps to install OF1.7.1 on RHEL5 Linux.

Thanks in advance

MLD

Hi Bruno,

I figured it out. All I had to do was to type 'wmake libso' in the src.

Thanks,
Nam

Hello Bruno,

How do you make scotch decomposition method work? The log file indicate that the libscotch.so was not copy to appropriate folder. So I copy them over after finish installation, but metis/scotch still not working. Thank you for your time and help.

Nam
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have OPENMPI shared library
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Build Scotch decomposition library

have scotch shared libraries in scotch_5.1/lib
+ cp scotch_5.1/lib/libscotch.so scotch_5.1/lib/libscotcherrexit.so /home/hnguyen/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.7.1/lib/linux64GccDPOpt
cp: target `/home/hnguyen/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.7.1/lib/linux64GccDPOpt' is not a directory
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Dear Bruno,
Thanks for your comments. now my paraFoam works properly.

Hello Bruno,

Just a comment, my system (Scientific Linux 5.5 64 bit) this line does not exist: "$WM_PROJECT_DIR/bin/apps/paraview3/bashrc".

Instead, I have "$WM_PROJECT_DIR/etc/apps/paraview3/bashrc". Edited this file as you suggested above and blockMesh works.

Thank you for your post and insight.

Interesting Problem occured:
I did what I've written above, and parafoam works,
but other openfoam programs don't work as I get the following message:
blockMesh: /home/sahm/OpenFOAM/ParaView-3.8.1-Linux-x86_64/lib/paraview-3.8/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.9' not found (required by /home/sahm/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.7.0/lib/linux64GccDPOpt/libfiniteVolume.so)
and many other things. any idea for that?

Hi, I created the following note which is very similar to your notes above. sorry I understood this better
It says the same thing, the only difference is that it is the same for all architectures and linux versions ( not sure about that ). And this installs the paraview in the main OpenFOAM folder, so that it would be the same paraview for all OF versions, if you have several versions (like 1.5 , 1.5.x , 1.6 , 1.7) on your computer simultaneously, you just have to do the step 1 and 2 for each version, after calling that version.
I'm trying to make a shell script to do everything automatically. Should you need the script, don't hesitate to contact.

Thank You Wyldckat for your good note. you can edit your notes and remove mine.

1- Remove The Old ParaView Folder. This folder is usually set with OpenFOAM Installation.
The following file defines every parameter regarding ParaView and ParaFOAM:

$WM_PROJECT_DIR/etc/apps/paraview3/bashrc

and this file is sourced from main OpenFOAM bashrc file:

$WM_PROJECT_DIR/etc/bashrc

1. Look if Old ParaView Folder exists:
   Code:

           ls $ParaView_DIR

2. If it says something like
   Quote:

   ls: cannot access /home/..../paraview-3.8.0: No such file or directory
   , that means the ParaView Folder does not exist and no need to clear it, as that gives error message.
   If it doesn't say something like that , then remove the folder:

2- Change the ParaView bashrc file:

$WM_PROJECT_DIR/etc/apps/paraview3/bashrc

set the paraview version and folders by finding the similar lines and changing to new version and folders:

ParaView_VERSION=3.8.1

paraviewInstDir=$WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR/ParaView-$ParaView_VERSION-Linux-$KUSU_DIST_ARCH
export ParaView_DIR=$WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR/ParaView-$ParaView_VERSION-Linux-$KUSU_DIST_ARCH

3- Set the ParaView Reader format inside paraFoam command:
Open the file "$WM_PROJECT_DIR/bin/paraFoam" in your favorite simple text editor and replace every entry ".OpenFOAM" with ".foam". Now save and close the file.
The following code does the same thing:
4- Download and Unpack latest version of Paraview with the following Code ,which does it automatically:

5- Move the Downloaded files into the ParaView Installation Folder:

Dear Bruno,

Thank you for the link, the effort and the good work! It works! (On Archlinux x86_64, for the people interested)

As I said on the Openfoam bug-report website, the compilation of ParaView itself and the reason why the additional PV3FoamReader Modules can only be added to the locally compiled version of ParaView are two things which continue to baffle me no matter how much effort I put in understanding them..

I wish there was an easy way of adding the PV3FoamReader Modules to a repository version of Paraview..

I also tried your forum thread:
"Using the official pre-built ParaView 3.8.0 version with OpenFOAM..." but that didn't work for some reason I didn't understand.

By the way, I also had an other question related to Paraview, albeit slightly off-topic.. A friend of mine was also using paraview, but he had the possibility to export videos directly to avi format within Paraview, without having to use a third party software.. Any tips/ideas on how to get this nifty add-on? (he said he had it from the start, so he didn't know better) I have to export the animations as images, and then make a movie out of them, a process I would like to make more efficient..

Kind regards,

Francois.

This helped me a lot, thank you. Replacing .OpenFOAM by .foam got rid of the "assertion 'extent !=0' failed" that I got when running paraFoam from a case dir. Now I believe I can finally run the first tutorial example of OpenFOAM in its full glory. :')

Thanks!!! Works great. I have saved plenty of time on debugging the compilation.
Do you know how to make OpenFoam reader default? The window on paraView start-up.

Thanks!!
You help me a lot.

I'm installing ParaView 3.8. I already downloaded and installed successfully (I HOPE!!!) QT 4.6. when building ParaView 3.8, i get the following error message:

/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.6.0/include/QtCore/qglobal.h:288:2: error: #error "You are building a 64-bit application, but using a 32-bit version of Qt. Check your build configuration."

I looked in the qglobal.h file (line 288).. but since i have close to no experience with code, i didn't know how to fix it.

I also get the following error, and i don't know if they are related:

/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.6.0/include/QtGui/qregion.h: In member function ‘OpaqueRgnHandle* QRegion::handle(bool) const’:
/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.6.0/include/QtGui/qregion.h:160: error: ‘toQDRgn’ was not declared in this scope

I'm new at the whole compiling/configuring/make install lingo... usually I just double click and wait for programs to install. If you could please help me!!!! Thanks.


correction... i just learned that my macbook is a 64-bit.