Problems installing OpenFOAM 2.3.0, 1.6-ext and foam-extend 3.0
 

Hi Foamers:)

I am facing problem in installing foam-extend-3.0 and OpenFOAM-1.6-ext...
I followed the instructions given in the link
http://sourceforge.net/p/openfoam-ex....04_64-bit.txt
But after compiling for 2-3 hour the terminal got stopped at a point which is shown in snapshot.
Please help me to install this package

Hi Sam,

I suggest that you read+study the following pages:

1. To make sure that you can use either one of the OpenFOAM versions: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/In...with_the_Shell
2. Then for installing 1.6-ext, follow the instructions for the Ubuntu version you're using: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/In...1.6-ext/Ubuntu
3. Then for foam-extend 3.0: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/In...end-3.0/Ubuntu

Best regards,
Bruno

OpenFOAM-1.6-ext along with OpenFOAM
 

Hi Bruno,

I have installed OpenFOAM-2.3.0 in home/user/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.3.0 .
I want to simulate gas turbine with DensityBasedTurbo solvers so I need to install OpenFOAM-1.6-ext. For that if I change the alias as follows
alias of221='source $HOME/OpenFOAM/openfoam230/etc/bashrc' alias of16ext='source $HOME/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6-ext/etc/bashrc'

Does this works ?
What are the steps i need to perform ?

Regards,
Sangamesh Hosur

Hi Sangamesh Hosur,

I thought that the wiki page on the first link explained everything clearly enough :(.

Anyway, the steps should be:

1. Edit the file "~/.bashrc", using your favourite text editor. For example, if using gedit:
   
   Code:

   ---

   gedit ~/.bashrc

   ---

2. Remove any lines that refer to OpenFOAM and add these to the end of the file:
   
   Code:

   ---

   alias of230='source $HOME/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.3.0/etc/bashrc'
alias of16ext='source $HOME/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6-ext/etc/bashrc'

   ---

3. Save and close the file.
4. Restart your machine. (I say this because I'm assuming you don't know how to logout and then how to log back in :()
5. It should now work as intended. In other words, you must always start a new terminal window, whenever you need a different OpenFOAM version. Then run the respective alias command, for the respective OpenFOAM version. For example:
   • If you want to use OpenFOAM 2.3.0, start a new terminal window and run:
     
     Code:

     ---

     of230

     ---

   • If you want to use OpenFOAM 1.6-ext, start a new terminal window and run:
     
     Code:

     ---

     of16ext

     ---

Best regards,
Bruno

Error in installing OpenFOAM-1.6-ext
 

Hi ,

I have followed the procedure to install OpenFOAM-1.6-ext on UBUNTU-12.04 as given in this link
http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/In...u#Ubuntu_12.04

But i am getting these following errors
Could you help me to get it installed properly ?

Regards,
Sangamesh Hosur

Something very strange happened in your installation. A critical file seems to have been deleted.
To diagnose what happened, let's try searching for it. First run these commands:
It should give you something similar to this:
The file "decompositionMethod.H" is the one missing, but is shown in the list above in my installation.
Then try this command:
It should give you this:
If it doesn't, then the files are missing.

Let me know what you get from each command, because by knowing what you get, I should be able to detail a specific solution.

By the way, you did not skip over step #6 from the instructions, or did you?

I got this

Then I tried this command:
I found this on my terminal:
I did not clone it as specified in step#5, Instead i downloaded OpenFOAM-1.6-ext then i tried step #6 I got something like this
How to counter this problem ?

Then that must be the reason for this problem. Please provide the link to the package you've downloaded, so that I can check what differences there are from the git version.

Here is the link : http://sourceforge.net/p/openfoam-ex...i/master/tree/

And I i have clicked on the downloadsnapshot and got the source file .

Hi Sangamesh,

Sorry, I've had a few busy days of late and didn't manage to look into this sooner.
I've compared the files from the package you've used and the files from the git clone I'm using. They seem identical.

Try running these commands, with the 1.6-ext shell environment turned on:
This should ensure that the decomposition libraries are rebuilt properly.

Best regards,
Bruno

E: Package 'paraview' has no installation candidate
 

Hi,

I am following the procedure to install OpenFOAM-1.6-ext from :
http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/In...u#Ubuntu_12.04

But when i execute the step 2, i will get the following error

What might be the problem and how to overcome this ?

Regards,
Sangamesh Hosur

Quick answer: You need to turn on the Universe repository: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/FA..._on_Ubuntu_.3F

Hi Bruno,

Kindly find the attached screen shot as it already universe is appended.

out put of sudo apt-get update
 

Here is the out of the procedure mentioned in
http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/FA..._on_Ubuntu_.3F

What is the content of the file it's complaining about?

source.list
 

openfoam.list is empty . Nothing is there .

I've tested this myself, namely to create an empty file inside the folder "/etc/apt/sources.list.d" and then ran:
and it did not give me any errors. The file "/etc/apt/sources.list.d/openfoam.list" that you have must have something inside it that is invalid.
Either erase this file or follow step #1 from here: http://www.openfoam.org/download/ubuntu.php

Hi Bruno,

I have installed OpenFOAM-1.6-ext on my personnel laptop with the procedure explained in the link http://www.tfd.chalmers.se/~hani/kur...OwnLaptop.html

But only i could not compile DensityBasedTurbo solvers. I ran axial case out of these but simulation was not proper. Here with i have attached the log files.

But I am not able to install on my organization's system .
Still struggling :confused:

Hi Sangamesh,

Sorry, but apparently the DensityBasedTurbo repository hasn't been updated in over 2 years and seems to be considerably outdated from the latest 1.6-ext version. Or it might be a compiler compatibility problem, since someone managed to build it with an older GCC version, as implied by this bug report: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mantisbt...iew.php?id=205

I won't be able to try to look into this before this weekend, but on Saturday I'll try to look into it.

Best regards,
Bruno


edit: Or you can try and report this at the bug tracker, as explained in the "README" file that is inside the folder "src": http://sourceforge.net/apps/mantisbt..._view_page.php - be sure to detail the OF version and GCC compiler version you're using.


edit 2: As for installing in your organization's machine, what is the latest problem you're having there?

Hi Bruno,

I will be waiting for your reply regarding DensityBasedTurbo compilation.

Mean while I will explain what i did in organization to install OpenFOAM-1.6-ext.

I am following the procedure explained in the link When I ran the caommand I obtained Still I proceeded for installation.
Later I downloaded scotch-5.1.10b.tar.gz
ParMGridGen-1.0.tar.gz
ParMetis-3.1.1.tar.gz
metis-5.0pre2.tar.gz
mesquite-2.1.2.tar.gz
libccmio-2.6.1.tar.gz
cmake-2.8.11.tar.gz files from the respective websites and placed at OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6-ext/Thirdparty/rpmBuild/SOURCES directory
Then ran the command
./AllMake.stage1 >& log.AllMake.stage1
I got message as "Package cmake-2.8.11 is already installed" in log file.
Then ran
./AllMake.stage3 >& log.AllMake.stage3 Log file of this is as follows

Code:

---

This system rpm command: rpm --force-debian

========================================
Starting ThirdParty AllMake: Stage3
========================================

Package name      : metis-5.0pre2
Package URL      : http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/fetch/sw/metis/OLD/metis-5.0pre2.tar.gz
RPM spec file name: metis-5.0pre2.spec
Additional flags  :
Updating the ThirdParty environment variables before building package metis-5.0pre2
Package metis-5.0pre2 is already installed
Done installing package

Package name      : ParMGridGen-1.0
Package URL      : http://www.mgnet.org/mgnet/Codes/parmgridgen/ParMGridGen-1.0.tar.gz
RPM spec file name: ParMGridGen-1.0.spec
Additional flags  :
Updating the ThirdParty environment variables before building package ParMGridGen-1.0
Package ParMGridGen-1.0 is already installed
Done installing package

Package name      : libccmio-2.6.1
Package URL      : http://portal.nersc.gov/svn/visit/tags/2.4.2/third_party/libccmio-2.6.1.tar.gz
RPM spec file name: libccmio-2.6.1.spec
Additional flags  :
Updating the ThirdParty environment variables before building package libccmio-2.6.1
Package libccmio-2.6.1 is already installed
Done installing package

Package name      : mesquite-2.1.2
Package URL      : http://software.sandia.gov/~jakraft/mesquite-2.1.2.tar.gz
RPM spec file name: mesquite-2.1.2.spec
Additional flags  :
Updating the ThirdParty environment variables before building package mesquite-2.1.2
Package mesquite-2.1.2 is already installed
Done installing package

Package name      : scotch-5.1.10b
Package URL      : https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/27583/scotch-5.1.10b.tar.gz
RPM spec file name: scotch-5.1.10b.spec
Additional flags  :
Updating the ThirdParty environment variables before building package scotch-5.1.10b
Download scotch-5.1.10b.tar.gz from : https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/27583/scotch-5.1.10b.tar.gz
--2014-03-13 10:23:17--  https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/27583/scotch-5.1.10b.tar.gz
Resolving gforge.inria.fr (gforge.inria.fr)... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `gforge.inria.fr'
Making package scotch-5.1.10b using RPM.
Building package scotch-5.1.10b using SPEC file : scotch-5.1.10b.spec. Optional args:
error: File /home/sml5kor/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6-ext/ThirdParty/rpmBuild/SOURCES/scotch-5.1.10b.tar.gz: No such file or directory
Installing package: scotch-5.1.10b
  Uninstalling scotch-5.1.10b using RPM: scotch-5.1.10b-linux64GccDPOpt.x86_64
  Installing scotch-5.1.10b using RPM file: /home/sml5kor/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6-ext/ThirdParty/rpmBuild/RPMS/x86_64/scotch-5.1.10b-linux64GccDPOpt.x86_64.rpm
error: open of /home/sml5kor/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6-ext/ThirdParty/rpmBuild/RPMS/x86_64/scotch-5.1.10b-linux64GccDPOpt.x86_64.rpm failed: No such file or directory
Done installing package

Package name      : ParMetis-3.1.1
Package URL      : http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/fetch/sw/parmetis/OLD/ParMetis-3.1.1.tar.gz
RPM spec file name: ParMetis-3.1.1.spec
Additional flags  :
Updating the ThirdParty environment variables before building package ParMetis-3.1.1
Package ParMetis-3.1.1 is already installed
Done installing package

========================================
Done ThirdParty AllMake: Stage3
========================================

---

Later I moved to install OpenFOAM-1.6ext and the log file is attached with this which seems to be similar to the log file attached in discussion #5. So I followed your instructions specified in #6 . Output is shown in snapshot.

I feel its the problem of scotch-5.1.10b.

Please help me to get rid of this .
I am trying it from past 20 days .