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Hello everyone,
Being a newbie in Linux I am trying to install Openfoam-ParaView. I would be grateful to a forum member who could provide me with a hint to solve a problem with ParaView 3.8.0 installation. (Even having realised from several web pages that it's about a well-known problem for beginners and a number of tipps have been offered, I didn't manage to overcome it). The following list of details applies to my case:



Toshiba A100-192 (purchased in 2006)
Linux 2.6.31.12-0.2-default i686
openSUSE 11.2 (i586) (download from www.openfoam.com on 8 July 2010)
4.3.5 (KDE 4.3.5) "release 0"


cmake version 2.6-patch 4
Using Qt version 4.5.3 in /usr/lib
flex 2.5.35


After downloading OpenFOAM-1.7.0.gtgz and ThirdParty-1.7.0.gtgz I installed OpenFOAM following the procedure described at albertopassalacqua.com and using the instructions for environment variable settings given at openfoam.com/download/source.php. I consider that the installation of OpenFOAM-1.7.0 was nearly effortless and successful.
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In order to install ParaView 3.8.0 I executed the commands:

• cd $WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR
• ./Allclean
• ./makeParaView

as described in both sites above.


Unfortunately, the following information was printed on screen:


WARNINGWarning: You are using Qt 4.5.3. Officially supported version is Qt 4.6


[ 15%] Compiling Qt help project paraview.qhp
/bin/sh: QT_HELP_GENERATOR-NOTFOUND: Kommando nicht gefunden.
make[2]: *** [Documentation/paraview.qch] Fehler 127
make[1]: *** [Documentation/CMakeFiles/ParaViewOnlineHelp.dir/all] Fehler 2
make[1]: *** Warte auf noch nicht beendete Prozesse...
.
.
.
[ 16%] Built target vtkFiltering
make: *** [all] Fehler 2


and the 'making' procedure must have been interrupted. The following 'Installing ParaView' procedure gave at about 99% warnings such as:


/home/menkat/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-1.7.0/paraview-3.8.0/Plugins/H5PartReader/H5Part/src/H5Part.c:103: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’
/home/menkat/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-1.7.0/paraview-3.8.0/Plugins/H5PartReader/H5Part/src/H5Part.c: In function ‘H5PartFile* H5PartOpenFile(const char*, unsigned int)’:


and ended with:


[ 99%] Built target NIfTIWriter
[ 99%] Built target GenerateParaViewQHP
[ 99%] Compiling Qt help project paraview.qhp
/bin/sh: QT_HELP_GENERATOR-NOTFOUND: Kommando nicht gefunden.
make[2]: *** [Documentation/paraview.qch] Fehler 127
make[1]: *** [Documentation/CMakeFiles/ParaViewOnlineHelp.dir/all] Fehler 2
make: *** [all] Fehler 2
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Installation complete for paraview-3.8.0
Set environment variables:


export ParaView_DIR=/home/menkat/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-1.7.0/platforms/linuxGcc/paraview-3.8.0
export PATH=$ParaView_DIR/bin:$PATH
export PV_PLUGIN_PATH=$FOAM_LIBBIN/paraview-3.8


(no other errors were encountered).

I attach the relevant make_paraview.log.gz file
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Testing the case proposed in openfoam.com/download/source.php I consider that blockMesh and icoFoam operated successfully while paraFoam gave


created temporary 'cavity.OpenFOAM'
/home/menkat/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.7.0/bin/paraFoam: Zeile 132: paraview: Kommando nicht gefunden.


Has anybody encountered such a problem under these circumstances and if so which is a possible remedy? So far:


I think that my machine/linux distro is of 32-architecture so I turned the '64' value to '32' in : ${WM_ARCH_OPTION:=64}; export WM_ARCH_OPTION, as has been proposed in cfd-online.com/Forums/openfoam/74172-new-user-needs-help.html, #6.

1. I looked at mail-archive.com/paraview@paraview.org/msg06022.html but I didn't manage to run ccmake properly (the person uses a 64-bit machine).
2. I have downloaded the libqt4-devel package via YAST2 and the system tells that Qt version 4.5.3 is in /usr/lib. Wondering whether I should had it 'locally' as it's proposed in cfd-online.com/Forums/openfoam/74172-new-user-needs-help.html, #6 (the relevant guidance site doesn't exist anymore) I downloaded but didn't manage to execute './makeQt'.
3. Should I tweak the values of _foamAddPath, _foamAddLib, as proposed in cfd-online.com/Forums/openfoam/74172-new-user-needs-help-2.html, #24? I am not sure whether the specific setting applies to my case.

I hope my lengthy post isn't much annoying.
Thank you!