Hi all,

I would appreciate to get help form people who konw how to set the environment variable in linux

I am getting the following error Error: directory /usr/local/Fluent.Inc/fluent6.3.26 does not contain a valid arch. Set the environment variable FLUENT_ARCH and try again.

I am using a 64 bit machine hp laptop and the os is ubuntu 8,0

I request you to help me out in fixing this

may yo must to set the valid architecture for your instalation--try with: (in terminal, move to /usr/local/Fluent.Inc/bin/) $ FLUENT_ARCH=lnamd64 fluent

good luck!

Hi Thanks for the reply. I have tried the option but it did not work.

I am using linux 32 bit version in 64 bit machine and os do u think it will work I am getting the same error

I did as u told went to the /usr/local/Fluent.Inc/bin floder and wrote this command FLUENT_ARCH =lnamd64 and export FLUENT_ARCH

but after that also it gives me the same error

/usr/local/Fluent.Inc/fluent6.3.26/bin/fluent -r6.3.26 Error: directory /usr/local/Fluent.Inc/fluent6.3.26 does not contain a valid arch. Set the environment variable FLUENT_ARCH and try again.

thanks for any sort of help

am using ubuntu latest version with kde 3.5on intel with core 2 duo 2.26 ghz 8400 processor