[Xwang]

Hi to all,
I've installed openfoam on my arch linux system using this AUR package:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/openfoam/
using the paraview from the community repository.


When I try to execute the cavity tutorial I get the following error when trying to using paraFoam

FATAL ERROR: The official reader module for OpenFOAM data does not exist on
your system.  This means that the version of ParaView you are using was not
compiled with OpenFOAM, or distributed with a packaged version of OpenFOAM.

For information on packaged versions of OpenFOAM/ParaView and compilation of
OpenFOAM/ParaView, see https://openfoam.org/download

Alternatively, you might be able to view your OpenFOAM data with the reader
module provided with ParaView by running:
    paraFoam -builtin

when using paraFoam -builtin an empty paraview is opened with the following error:




Cannot open data file " --mesa "



How can I solve?
Does someone use openfoam in archlinux too?

[sourav90]

You can try installing like this:

sudo pacman -S paraview

Then after running the simulation, you can try this:

touch "${PWD##*/}".foam

which will generate an empty file with .foam extension in the name of the current directory. Then this file can be opened in paraview for visualisation of the simulation results.