CFD Online Discussion Forums - [OpenFOAM.org] Installation of OpenFOAM 2.3.1 on RHEL 6.3

Hi Jack,

here comes another way I used [but before try Alexey's suggestion that is a more elegant solution]

Similarly to you, I had a redhat server 6.4 Santiago, and gcc 4.4.7 without the possibility to become root.

Therefore I did the following:
1) take an hard disk with some GB of space and install on it virtual box portable http://www.vbox.me/
2) create a virtual machine installing CentOS 6.6
3) follow the instruction from http://www.openfoam.org/download/git.php
4) copy the compiled version of the virtual machine into your redhat 6.4 server
5) modify the environment variables
I test some tutorials and they are running well.

If you are interested in more details I copy below my diary of command executed:

In the virtual machine centOS6.6:

as root:

Code:

yum install git

download the sources

Code:

cd /home/donQi/OpenFOAM

as normal user [not Root]

Code:

git clone git://github.com/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.3.x.git

    cd OpenFOAM-2.3.x

    git pull

save in /home/donQi/OpenFOAM the ThirdParty-2.3.1.tgz
(always as normal user)

Code:

tar xzf ThirdParty-2.3.1.tgz

    mv ThirdParty-2.3.1 ThirdParty-2.3.x

now as root:

Code:

yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'

    yum install openmpi openmpi-devel

    yum-config-manager --nogpgcheck --add-repo http://dl.atrpms.net/el6-x86_64/atrpms/stable

    yum install --nogpgcheck qtwebkit qtwebkit-devel

    yum install --nogpgcheck CGAL CGAL-devel

then :

Code:

ln -s /usr/lib64/libboost_thread-mt.so /usr/lib64/libboost_thread.so

then as normal user

Code:

gedit ~/.bashrc

add the lines:

Code:

 export PATH=/usr/lib64/openmpi/bin/:$PATH

    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib64/openmpi/lib/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

then in terminal

Code:

source ~/.bashrc

    mpirun --version

you should see the message:
mpirun (Open MPI) 1.8.1
then as root:

Code:

 yum-config-manager --nogpgcheck --add-repo http://springdale.princeton.edu/data/puias/6.5/x86_64/os

    yum-config-manager --nogpgcheck --add-repo http://springdale.princeton.edu/data/puias/DevToolset/6.5/x86_64

    yum install --nogpgcheck devtoolset-1.1-runtime devtoolset-1.1-gcc.x86_64 devtoolset-1.1-gcc-c++.x86_64

This creates an isolated installation of GCC which can be used by sourcing the relevant script by typing the following in a local terminal:

Code:

source /opt/rh/devtoolset-1.1/enable

then as normal user

Code:

    source /opt/rh/devtoolset-1.1/enable

    gcc --version

and we get

Code:

 gcc (GCC) 4.7.2 20121015 (Red Hat 4.7.2-5)

        Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

        This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO

        warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Finally!!!
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
in thunder VirtualMachine where we had /home/donQi/OpenFOAM/ we have just add in ~/.bashrc :

Code:

source $HOME/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.3.x/etc/bashrc

type:
foam
and you should be in the directory OpenFOAM-2.3.x
let's check

Code:

foamSystemCheck

we get:

Code:

System check: PASS

Jeremy Clarkson get the vietnamese driving license!!! OK!!!!
Then

Code:

cd $WM_PROJECT_DIR

to avoid an error [ "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz" ] before launching the Allrun install also

Code:

    yum install zlib-static

    yum install glibc-static

NOTE: if you get an error "NOKEY.." then use:

Code:

    yum install --nogpgcheck zlib-static

    yum install --nogpgcheck glibc-static

Then launch:

Code:

./Allwmake > make.log 2>&1

OK zero errors.

Now back to copy in our server.
>> Copying the compiled openFOAM to Redhat6.4 /
In the thunder VirtualMachine, copy all the files inside the OpenFOAM directory into the share directory:

Code:

sudo su - 

    cd -rL /home/donQi/OpenFOAM/* /media/sf_ShareThunder

NOTE: we add the L option to avoid the error "ERROR Cannot create symlink to"
Then back to the RedHat6.4 machine:
we copy the directory from the virtual machine (OpenFOAM-2.3.x, donQi-2.3.x and ThirdParty-2.3.x) into

Code:

/net/lnx6/home/donQi/OpenFOAM/thunderCompiled

In ~/.bashrc set :

Code:

alias OF23x='. /net/lnx6/home/donQi/OpenFOAM/thunderCompiled/OpenFOAM-2.3.x/etc/bashrc'

e nella ect/bash

Code:

foamInstall=/net/lnx6/home/donQi/OpenFOAM/thunderCompiled/

new terminal

Code:

  source ~/.bashrc

  OF23x

  tut

  cd incompressible/icoFoam

  blockMesh

OK works

Code:

[1034 cavity] >> blockMesh

/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*\

| =========                 |                                                 |

| \\      /  F ield         | OpenFOAM: The Open Source CFD Toolbox           |

|  \\    /   O peration     | Version:  2.3.x                                 |

|   \\  /    A nd           | Web:      www.OpenFOAM.org                      |

|    \\/     M anipulation  |                                                 |

\*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

Build  : 2.3.x-c70d1f3c1beb

Exec   : blockMesh

Date   : Mar 26 2015