[johneck]

Actually the command to set the variable VERS worked as it was supposed to. The first thing I checked was to make sure that the variable was assigned correctly. It seemed to work for all but about 4 parts of the download when "update" was run.

[wyldckat]

Mmm... I understood from your description that the problem was that the words "lsb_release" appeared instead of "precise" during the update...

[johneck]

yes, but not in every case. It seemed that most of the fetch commands worked properly. Only a few had the problem.

[crispy]

I too am having similar issues. I have Ubuntu 10.04 LTS running on a 64bit machine (dual boot alongside Windows.) Following the instructions in http://www.openfoam.org/download/ubuntu.php ends up having issues with the GET UPDATE command. All the lines referring to openfoam begin with Ign (Ignore I presume?) At the end it's trying to get "main Packages" and "-cs Packages" from www.openfoam.org lsb_release/ with Ign at the beginning of each line and finally says Err instead of Ign then "W: Failed to fetch" from the same locations when it tries to get the Packages.gz file (it tried to get it from /-cs/binary-amd64 and also from /main/binary-amd64/.)

Is this something going on at OpenFOAM's end and I should just try again later?

I don't know how to copy/paste from the terminal window, so please excuse the lack of detailed information.

[wyldckat]

Greetings Chris and welcome to the forum!

You can copy from the from the terminal by pressing the key combination Ctrl+Shift+C
For pasting on the terminal you can use Ctrl+Shift+V
Selection is with the mouse.

As for the commands for installing, try these instead:

VERS=$(lsb_release -cs)       
sudo sh -c "echo deb http://www.openfoam.org/download/ubuntu $VERS main > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openfoam.list"

Then proceed with the remaining commands. But if still doesn't work, you now know how to copy-paste from the terminal

Best regards,
Bruno

[crispy]

Dang - you guys are awesome. Thanks - worked.