[selvan]

I am trying to install openfoam.

I have downloaded files from openfoam from http://www.openfoam.com/ (source files page).
The files are installed in home/openfoam/OpenFoam-2.0.1 directory.

As said in doucumentation page I typed in ~/.bashrc file
/home$ source home/openfoam/OpenFOAM-2.0.1/etc/bashrc
saved and closed.

On typying in the terminal,
icoFoam -help

gives the message



icoFoam: command not found

What could be wrong? Can somebody help? Thanks in advance

[wyldckat]

Greetings Tamilselvan and welcome to the forum!

Originally Posted by selvan

As said in doucumentation page I typed in ~/.bashrc file
/home$ source home/openfoam/OpenFOAM-2.0.1/etc/bashrc
saved and closed.

I think you didn't follow the instructions properly... Quoting what's on the official site:

if running bash or ksh (if in doubt type echo $SHELL), source the etc/bashrc file by adding the following line to the end of your $HOME/.bashrc file:

source $HOME/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.0.1/etc/bashrc

then type “source $HOME/.bashrc” in the current terminal window

You must do things exactly as it is described on the instructions! $HOME is not the same as $home !!

Best regards and good luck!
Bruno