[lyna]

Hi !
please can you help me to install the OpenFOAM in the fedora linux distribution
thank you

[sega]

What is the problem?
Please be more specific or you won't get any answers.

[lyna]

Hi
first can I used the fedora distribution instead of the ubuntu or suse distributions
to install OpenFOAM code
thank you

[gwierink]

Hi Lynda,

Yes it is possible, my OpenFOAM is very happy on Fedora . Here are some basic instructions that worked for me (it is for OpenFOAM-1.5, but works also for 1.6, just the file names are different). Hope that solves your trouble.

Cheers,

Gijsbert

[lyna]

Hi Gijsbert
Mon .bashrc is in /root /.bashrc directory.
When I copy the following line:
/ home/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/etc/bashrc
in / root/.bashrc file, I have a problem when I turn on my PC or when I open a new terminal because I find the following error message:
Permission not granted (Permission non accordée)
please help me

[gwierink]

Hi Lynda,

You need to put the line

. $HOME/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/etc/bashrc

in $HOME/.bashrc (in case you don't know, "$HOME" is another way to put the path to your user home directory, in my case /home/gijsbert/). This is your user .bashrc, not root's .bashrc . Just open a terminal and type

gedit .bashrc &

and paste the line above in it (notice the "." at the beginning). Save and close gedit and source the terminal with (notice the "." at the beginning again)

. $HOME/.bashrc

or just close it and open an new terminal.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Gijsbert

[lyna]

Hi Gijsbert
I did all the steps in your message, I've copied a terminal to see better things

terminal
bash: ./root/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/etc/bashrc: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type
[root@localhost ~]# .$HOME/.bashrc
bash: ./root/.bashrc: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type
[root@localhost ~]# .$HOME/.bashrc
bash: ./root/.bashrc: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type
[root@localhost ~]#



thank you

[gwierink]

Hi Lynda,

Ok, first of all you need to be in your user account in the terminal, not in root. It seems you are root

[root@localhost ~]#

It is better to use your user account (type "exit" to get out of the root account in the terminal). Also, there needs to be a space between "." and "$HOME/....", so not

.$HOME/.bashrc

, but

. $HOME/.bashrc

Let me know how it goes.

Cheers, Gijs

[lyna]

Hi Gijsbert

I opened another session and I redid all, but I had the same messages in
the terminal, it may be necessary to copy the OpenFOAM directory in my file LTPMP
is not it?
Here's what I got :

terminal
bash: /home/LTPMP/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/etc/bashrc: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type
[LTPMP@localhost ~]$ . $HOME/.bashrc
bash: /home/LTPMP/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/etc/bashrc: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type
[LTPMP@localhost ~]$

thank you

[gwierink]

Hi Lynda,

Did you install OF as root? If so, it is probably located in /root/OpenFOAM/. It is better to install OF in your user account. In your case, I'm afraid, you need to reinstall OF in your user account, i.e. do the whole installation procedure as [LTPMP@localhost ~]$. And to keep things tidy I would delete the OpenFOAM directory from root.

Cheers, Gijsbert

[lyna]

Hi Gijsbert

I do not have Qt installed, I tried on the two methods listed in your''....................'' yum install or download package qt-x11-opensource-src-4.3.5.tar.gz, but it did not work. I downloaded this package and I followed the instructions through step 3
make when I typed in my terminal I have the following result;

[root@localhost qt-x11-opensource-src-4.3.5]# make
make: *** Pas de cibles spécifiées et aucun makefile n'a été trouvé. Arrêt.

THANK YOU

[gwierink]

Hi Lyna,

So

yum groupinstall "X Software Development"

did not work?

Did you do

./configure

after you unpacked qt?
And then

gmake

followed by

gmake install

?

Cheers, Gijs

PS If you need to re-make qt again for some reason you can clean by

gmake confclean

[lyna]

Hi Gijsbert

I installed QT, I tried to run the sample "cavity" I wanted to show the mesh and found the results, I typed "paraFoam" ParaView window opens but I do not knew how to get certified in Figure 6.1 User Guide (p U-160)

thank you

[gwierink]

I am sorry, Lyna, but I do not understand what you mean. Did you solve the problem? If not, what is the issue?

[lyna]

Hi Gijibert
yes,I solved the « qt-x11-opensource-src-4.3.5 »problem.
I want to rebuild the paraview ( the next step of the 'qt-x11-opensource-src-4.3.5') unfortunately, I can't run the last step (builparaview) and even (makeparaview)

[gwierink]

Hi Lynda,

It seems that you are using OpenFOAM-1.6, am I right? If so, you need to do the following:

cd $WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR

rm -rf paraview-3.6.1/platforms

makeParaView

as explained in section 7 of the README file. What is the terminal output if you try makeParaView?

It may be that you need to specify the location of Qt and Mesa in lines 37-60 of $HOME/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-1.6/makeParaView. Mine looks like this:

# User options:
# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

# MPI support:
withMPI=false
MPI_MAX_PROCS=32

# Python support:
# note: script will try to determine the appropriate python library.
#       If it fails, specify the path using the PYTHON_LIBRARY variable
withPYTHON=false
PYTHON_LIBRARY=""
# PYTHON_LIBRARY="/usr/lib64/libpython2.6.so.1.0"

# MESA graphics support:
withMESA=false
MESA_INCLUDE="/usr/include/GL"
MESA_LIBRARY="/usr/lib64/libOSMesa.so"

# extra QT gui support (useful for re-using the installation for engrid)
withQTSUPPORT=true

# Set the path to the Qt-4.3.? qmake if the system Qt is other than this version
QMAKE_PATH=""

If you need to know the qmake path, just type

which qmake

Cheers,

Gijs

[lyna]

Hi Gijibert

Yes, you're right. I use OpenFOAM-1.6.
I have problem with the command « makeParaView »; the output terminal don't find this command,
Please, I don't know in what file are the 37 and 60 lines and how to specify Qt and Misa.


Thank you

[gwierink]

Hi Lynda,

First find out where qmake is located by

which qmake

This will give you the QMAKE_PATH, in my case it is $HOME/tmp/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.3.5/bin/qmake. Then, open the file makeParaView with

gedit $HOME/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-1.6/makeParaView &

and check that the openGL libraries (MESA), python, and qmake are the right paths (make changes if needed and save). Mine looks like this (line 37-60):

# User options:
# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

# MPI support:
withMPI=false
MPI_MAX_PROCS=32

# Python support:
# note: script will try to determine the appropriate python library.
#       If it fails, specify the path using the PYTHON_LIBRARY variable
withPYTHON=false
PYTHON_LIBRARY=""
# PYTHON_LIBRARY="/usr/lib64/libpython2.6.so.1.0"

# MESA graphics support:
withMESA=false
MESA_INCLUDE="/usr/include/GL"
MESA_LIBRARY="/usr/lib64/libOSMesa.so"

# extra QT gui support (useful for re-using the installation for engrid)
withQTSUPPORT=true

# Set the path to the Qt-4.3.? qmake if the system Qt is other than this version
QMAKE_PATH=""

[lyna]

Hi Gijibert

after the change the path in to lines (37-60), shows in the following lines :

code ;
************************************************** ***************************************
# MPI support:
withMPI=false
MPI_MAX_PROCS=32

# Python support:
# note: script will try to determine the appropriate python library.
# If it fails, specify the path using the PYTHON_LIBRARY variable
withPYTHON=false
PYTHON_LIBRARY="/usr/lib64/libpython2.5.so.1.0"
# PYTHON_LIBRARY="/usr/lib64/libpython2.6.so.1.0"

# MESA graphics support:
withMESA=false
MESA_INCLUDE="/usr/include/GL"
MESA_LIBRARY="/usr/lib64/libOSMesa.so.6.5.2"

# extra QT gui support (useful for re-using the installation for engrid)
withQTSUPPORT=true

# Set the path to the Qt-4.3? qmake if the system Qt is other than this version
QMAKE_PATH="/tmp/qt-x11-opensource-src-4.3.5/bin/qmake"
************************************************** ************************************************** **

Because, I find the qmake Mesa and libpython libraries paths, the output terminal is ;

************************************************
[root@localhost ~]# find / -name 'libpython*' -print
/usr/lib/libpython2.5.so
/usr/lib/python2.5/config/libpython2.5.a
/usr/lib/python2.5/config/libpython2.5.so
/usr/lib/libpython2.5.so.1.0
/usr/lib64/libpython2.5.so
/usr/lib64/python2.5/config/libpython2.5.a
/usr/lib64/python2.5/config/libpython2.5.so
/usr/lib64/libpython2.5.so.1.0
/usr/lib64/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libpythonmethod.so
[root@localhost ~]# find / -name 'libOSMesa.so*' -print
/usr/lib/libOSMesa.so.6.5.2
/usr/lib/libOSMesa.so.6
/usr/lib64/libOSMesa.so.6.5.2
/usr/lib64/libOSMesa.so.6
************************************************** ***********

I want to rebuild the paraview. unfortunately, I can't run "maKeParaview", the output terminal don't find this command,

thank you

[wyldckat]

Hello Lynda,

In Linux, to run scripts from a local folder, usually you have to use "./". For your case:

./makeParaView

I know, it's a bit weird, but that's how it works.

I hope it finally works. Best regards,
Bruno