[wyldckat]

This thread aims to guide those who feel completely lost in where to find information on how to install OpenFOAM.

These are the known installation instructions for OpenFOAM and many of its variants:

1. The instructions for the official OpenFOAM versions are provided at the OpenFOAM Foundation website.
2. The instructions for the official OpenFOAM+ versions are provided at the OpenCFD (ESI group) website.
3. The instructions for the foam-extend (community fork) can be found here:
   1. foam-extend 4.0 Installation instructions @ openfoamwiki.net
   2. foam-extend 3.2 Installation instructions @ openfoamwiki.net
   3. foam-extend 3.1 Installation instructions @ openfoamwiki.net
   4. foam-extend 3.0 Installation instructions @ openfoamwiki.net
4. Installation instructions for installing Caelus-CML (fork) can be found at the Caelus-CML website.
5. The instructions for installing FreeFOAM are provided at their official website: FreeFOAM Installation Instructions
6. Instructions written by the community are mostly centralized at openfoamwiki.net, in the page Installation. There you'll find dedicated instructions for each version and Operating System.
7. Questions about installing any of these versions/variants can be asked at the (unofficial) forum here at CFD-Online: OpenFOAM Installation
   1. For issues with installing OpenFOAM+ from ESI-OpenCFD, please use the prefix [OpenFOAM.com].
   2. For issues with installing OpenFOAM from the OpenFOAM Foundation, please use the prefix [OpenFOAM.org].
   3. For issues with installing foam-extend (including the old 1.6-ext and 1.5-dev forks) from the foam-extend project, please use the prefix [foam-extend.org].
   4. For issues with any other fork/variant, please use the prefix [Other].

Other Frequently Asked Questions:

• About Installing OpenFOAM: FAQ/Installation and Running at openfoamwiki.net
• About OpenFOAM in general: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/FAQ
• Installing in Windows: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Installation/Windows
• Installing in Mac OS X: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Installation/Mac_OS
• Using GPU with OpenFOAM: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/GPGPU
• How to use the shell and how to have more than one version/variant of OpenFOAM installed: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/In...with_the_Shell
• About uninstalling/removing OpenFOAM: How to uninstall/remove OpenFOAM?
• About Forks and Variants of OpenFOAM

Manuals and Guides:

• Official OpenFOAM online page for the manuals and guides: http://www.openfoam.org/docs/
• Official OpenFOAM User Guide:
  • Online HTML version: http://www.openfoam.org/docs/user/
  • Online PDF version: OpenFOAM User Guide at SF.net
  • The local copy in your OpenFOAM installation can be found by running this command:
    

    echo $WM_PROJECT_DIR/doc/Guides-a4/UserGuide.pdf

• Official (but not fully supported) OpenFOAM Programmer's Guide:
  • Online version: OpenFOAM Programmer's Guide at SF.net
  • The local version in your OpenFOAM installation can be found by running this command (although it's no present in OpenFOAM 4.0 and newer versions, but should still be in OpenFOAM+):
    

    echo $WM_PROJECT_DIR/doc/Guides-a4/ProgrammersGuide.pdf

• Community created wiki pages, aimed to complement the official guides: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/OpenFOAM_guide

Notes:

• If you are still using OpenFOAM 1.6-ext from July 2012 to January 2013, please read the instructions from this post: http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...tml#post432005 post #51

[tkoz]

Paraview is as important as the meshing and solvers. It is the prime way to access results. More than half of the queries/problems posted on these boards and others regarding openfoam are related to paraview and parafoam and the special readers.


Couldn't a knowledgeable person go over the paraview related queries, the installation scripts (which fail in many cases) and the documentation concerned with paraview access using parafoam and the special reader. Many people don't have the perseverance I do in getting this running and likely give up and move onto other software.


I think these issues need to be resolved and are essential for the increase in the size of the openfoam community.


tom kosvic

[Sachin m]

Hi,

I also ran into an issue during the installation of OF v2106 on a Windows Sub Linux system under Ubuntu 20.04.

I followed the OF.com recommendation for installation (https://develop.openfoam.com/Develop...ompiled/debian)

I have enabled WSL, Installed Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and pasted the below commands,

curl -s https://dl.openfoam.com/add-debian-repo.sh | sudo bash

wget -q -O - https://dl.openfoam.com/add-debian-repo.sh | sudo bash

And I received "The repository is setup! You can now install packages."

After that, I ran the command "sudo apt-get install openfoam2106-default" and I got "E: Unable to locate package openfoam2106-default".

OF installation got proceeded by running "sudo apt-get update" and after "sudo apt-get install openfoam2106-default" but encountered with the below error,

ras@DESKTOP-EAG7NR6:~$ sudo apt-get install openfoam2106-default
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
autoconf automake autotools-dev binutils binutils-common binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu cpp cpp-8 cpp-9 flex g++ g++-9
gcc gcc-8 gcc-8-base gcc-9 gcc-9-base gfortran gfortran-8 gfortran-9 ibverbs-providers libasan5 libatomic1
libbinutils libboost-atomic1.71-dev libboost-atomic1.71.0 libboost-chrono1.71-dev libboost-chrono1.71.0
libboost-date-time1.71-dev libboost-date-time1.71.0 libboost-dev libboost-program-options-dev
libboost-program-options1.71-dev libboost-program-options1.71.0 libboost-serialization1.71-dev
libboost-serialization1.71.0 libboost-system-dev libboost-system1.71-dev libboost-system1.71.0 libboost-thread-dev
libboost-thread1.71-dev libboost-thread1.71.0 libboost1.71-dev libc-dev-bin libc6-dev libcaf-openmpi-3 libcc1-0
libcgal-dev libcoarrays-dev libcoarrays-openmpi-dev libcrypt-dev libctf-nobfd0 libctf0 libevent-core-2.1-7
libevent-dev libevent-extra-2.1-7 libevent-openssl-2.1-7 libevent-pthreads-2.1-7 libfabric1 libfftw3-bin
libfftw3-dev libfftw3-double3 libfftw3-long3 libfftw3-quad3 libfftw3-single3 libfl-dev libgcc-8-dev libgcc-9-dev
libgfortran-8-dev libgfortran-9-dev libgfortran5 libgmp-dev libgmpxx4ldbl libgomp1 libhwloc-dev libhwloc-plugins
libhwloc15 libibverbs-dev libibverbs1 libisl22 libitm1 liblsan0 libltdl-dev libmpc3 libmpfr-dev libmpx2
libncurses-dev libnl-3-200 libnl-3-dev libnl-route-3-200 libnl-route-3-dev libnuma-dev libopenmpi-dev libopenmpi3
libpmix2 libpsm-infinipath1 libpsm2-2 libptscotch-6.0 libptscotch-dev libquadmath0 librdmacm1 libreadline-dev
libscotch-6.0 libscotch-dev libstdc++-9-dev libtool libtsan0 libubsan1 libxnvctrl0 linux-libc-dev m4 make
manpages-dev mpi-default-bin mpi-default-dev ocl-icd-libopencl1 openfoam-selector openfoam2106 openfoam2106-common
openfoam2106-dev openfoam2106-source openfoam2106-tools openfoam2106-tutorials openmpi-bin openmpi-common zlib1g-dev
Suggested packages:
autoconf-archive gnu-standards autoconf-doc gettext binutils-doc cpp-doc gcc-8-locales gcc-9-locales bison
build-essential flex-doc g++-multilib g++-9-multilib gcc-9-doc gcc-multilib gdb gcc-doc gcc-8-multilib gcc-8-doc
gcc-9-multilib gfortran-multilib gfortran-doc gfortran-8-multilib gfortran-8-doc gfortran-9-multilib gfortran-9-doc
libboost-doc libboost1.71-doc libboost-container1.71-dev libboost-context1.71-dev libboost-contract1.71-dev
libboost-coroutine1.71-dev libboost-exception1.71-dev libboost-fiber1.71-dev libboost-filesystem1.71-dev
libboost-graph1.71-dev libboost-graph-parallel1.71-dev libboost-iostreams1.71-dev libboost-locale1.71-dev
libboost-log1.71-dev libboost-math1.71-dev libboost-mpi1.71-dev libboost-mpi-python1.71-dev libboost-numpy1.71-dev
libboost-python1.71-dev libboost-random1.71-dev libboost-regex1.71-dev libboost-stacktrace1.71-dev
libboost-test1.71-dev libboost-timer1.71-dev libboost-type-erasure1.71-dev libboost-wave1.71-dev
libboost1.71-tools-dev libmpfrc++-dev libntl-dev glibc-doc libmpfi-dev libtbb-dev libfftw3-doc gmp-doc libgmp10-doc
libhwloc-contrib-plugins libtool-doc libmpfr-doc ncurses-doc openmpi-doc readline-doc libstdc++-9-doc gcj-jdk m4-doc
make-doc opencl-icd gnuplot
The following NEW packages will be installed:
autoconf automake autotools-dev binutils binutils-common binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu cpp cpp-8 cpp-9 flex g++ g++-9
gcc gcc-8 gcc-8-base gcc-9 gcc-9-base gfortran gfortran-8 gfortran-9 ibverbs-providers libasan5 libatomic1
libbinutils libboost-atomic1.71-dev libboost-atomic1.71.0 libboost-chrono1.71-dev libboost-chrono1.71.0
libboost-date-time1.71-dev libboost-date-time1.71.0 libboost-dev libboost-program-options-dev
libboost-program-options1.71-dev libboost-program-options1.71.0 libboost-serialization1.71-dev
libboost-serialization1.71.0 libboost-system-dev libboost-system1.71-dev libboost-system1.71.0 libboost-thread-dev
libboost-thread1.71-dev libboost-thread1.71.0 libboost1.71-dev libc-dev-bin libc6-dev libcaf-openmpi-3 libcc1-0
libcgal-dev libcoarrays-dev libcoarrays-openmpi-dev libcrypt-dev libctf-nobfd0 libctf0 libevent-core-2.1-7
libevent-dev libevent-extra-2.1-7 libevent-openssl-2.1-7 libevent-pthreads-2.1-7 libfabric1 libfftw3-bin
libfftw3-dev libfftw3-double3 libfftw3-long3 libfftw3-quad3 libfftw3-single3 libfl-dev libgcc-8-dev libgcc-9-dev
libgfortran-8-dev libgfortran-9-dev libgfortran5 libgmp-dev libgmpxx4ldbl libgomp1 libhwloc-dev libhwloc-plugins
libhwloc15 libibverbs-dev libibverbs1 libisl22 libitm1 liblsan0 libltdl-dev libmpc3 libmpfr-dev libmpx2
libncurses-dev libnl-3-200 libnl-3-dev libnl-route-3-200 libnl-route-3-dev libnuma-dev libopenmpi-dev libopenmpi3
libpmix2 libpsm-infinipath1 libpsm2-2 libptscotch-6.0 libptscotch-dev libquadmath0 librdmacm1 libreadline-dev
libscotch-6.0 libscotch-dev libstdc++-9-dev libtool libtsan0 libubsan1 libxnvctrl0 linux-libc-dev m4 make
manpages-dev mpi-default-bin mpi-default-dev ocl-icd-libopencl1 openfoam-selector openfoam2106 openfoam2106-common
openfoam2106-default openfoam2106-dev openfoam2106-source openfoam2106-tools openfoam2106-tutorials openmpi-bin
openmpi-common zlib1g-dev
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Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!