[ecbmxer]

Hi my name is Clint. I took an OpenFOAM course a year or two ago, where we were given the bootable Linux flash drives. I actually still run on the drive sometimes. It has OF 1.6-ext installed on it. And I decided I wanted 2.1.1 to get some of the lagrangian examples. So I downloaded and installed it according to the directions for the Deb pack. It seemed like everything went fine. I edited my bashrc file so I had an alias for of16x and one for of211. I restarted everything and tried my of16x alias and it worked fine. I could run everything and paraFoam worked.

Then I restarted the terminal and ran my of211 alias. Seemed like it worked. I went into my 2.1.1 directory and was able to use blockMesh to mesh an example geometry and was able to run the solver (rhoSimplecFoam was the one I started with).

Then I went to look at the results with paraFoam and go this:

FATAL ERROR: ParaView reader module libraries do not exist

Please build the reader module before continuing:
cd $FOAM_UTILITIES/postProcessing/graphics/PV3Readers
./Allwclean
./Allwmake

I read some threads troubleshooting this. One suggested to add "PV_PLUGIN_PATH" to the bashrc file, which I tried. That didn't fix it. Actually I did notice that right when I start a terminal, I can echo PV_PLUGIN_PATH and get the correct path, but then once I run openfoam 2.1.1, it returns nothing if I echo it.

Anyway, just looking for some help with this. I can currently visualize results from my 2.1.1 install in a round about way by restarting the terminal and loading openfoam 1.6ext for running paraFoam, but I shouldn't have to.

Thanks!

-Clint