[60 Plymouth]

Hello All,

New to the Forum, new to CFD and new to Linux, so hello! Hopfully I can get some assistance here and in the future be able to offer somthing back.

I'm using Ubuntu v11.10, and I'm trying to install/use OpenFOAM 2.10 and Paraview 3.12.0

I have been following the instructions here: http://www.openfoam.org/download/ubuntu.php

I have gotten to the "User configuration" section and I'm drawing a blank. The commands "gedit ~/.bashrc" appears to do nothing. Nor does following it with "source /opt/openfoam210/etc/bashrc".

I understand that these have to be saved to get openfoam to work? How do I go about doing this? I've been following the instructions to the letter right from VirtualBox download/install, but this has had me stuck for hours.

Openfoam and Paraview are both in the /opt files section as found in the explorer. Attempting to 'start again' and re-install openfoam and paraview, I get a message saying that they are both the latest versions and both already installed.

Trying the "icoFoam -help" command yields "icoFoam: command not found"

I suspect the problem lies with the userconfiguration but I could be wrong.

Any and all help greatly appreciated.

All the best,
60Ply