R.e openFoam 1.6
 

Hi,
I'm currently trying to install openFoam 1.6 using these instructions:
http://www.tfd.chalmers.se/~hani/kur...OwnLaptop.html
It all worked fine except the paraview installation, I installed it instead through sudo apt get is there a way to link paraview and paraFoam?

Regards

Adam Thurlow

Greetings Adam,

First detail: it is 1.6-ext, not simply 1.6! There is a very big difference ;)

Second: the ParaView version that comes with Ubuntu 10.04 is very old. You can get the one from openfoam.org - http://www.openfoam.org/download/ubuntu.php - namely the package "paraviewopenfoam3120" and then hack a bit on 1.6-ext:

• Check if the "ParaView_DIR" variable is working:
  Code:

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  echo $ParaView_DIR

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  If this shows anything, then run:
  Code:

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  rm -r $ParaView_DIR
ln -s /opt/paraviewopenfoam3120 $ParaView_DIR

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• Edit the file "OpenFOAM-1.6-ext/bin/paraFoam" and change all occurrences of ".OpenFOAM" to ".foam". Notice there is a dot symbol after the first quote ;)

And that should be it and reaaaady to go! At least it should be, if you have properly installed the graphics drivers on your machine ;)

Keep in mind that I haven't tested these instructions myself. This is basically an incomplete hack, since it only gets things half done. For several more detailed instructions, check my signature link :)

Best regards,
Bruno

Cheers that worked,