Installing/compiling OpenFOAM on a server without admin privileges
 

I have also asked this question here in StackOverflow.

I'm trying to install/compile OpenFOAM on a remote server. As I don't have the admin privileges I have to compile it from scratch. Following the instructions here, when I try to run
I get the error:

I checked the ~/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-v1712/etc/bashrc. It definitely exists and it is intact. I also checked the /home/foobar/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-v1712/ folder and there are no such thing as platforms folder! I searched and the only place I could see a similar error message is here where the issue is old Bash. I tried bash --version returning version 4.3.48(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) which is more than 4.2 as seems to be required.

My system information:

When I run the uname -a command on the server this is what I get

Looking into the possible required dependencies mentioned in this page, I checked the installed packages using the command

The packages installed are:

And the ones not installed are:

which according to the installation page are not essential I suppose.

and checking the versions of the libraries installed:

• mpirun --version --> (Open MPI) 1.10.2
• gcc --version --> gcc (Ubuntu 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.5) 5.4.0 20160609
• cmake --version --> 3.5.1

I would appreciate if could let me know what is the problem and how I can solve it? Or if not solvable, what are the alternative methods for me to have the OpenFOAM installed/compiled on the said server.

Was this before or after you ran AllWmake etc.. to install?

Thanks for the reply. I have solved the problem here