OpenFOAM installation
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OpenFOAM Installation
OpenFOAM 2.3.1 over Debian 7.0
Installation
First you need to check the required packages. They can be obtained using aptitude. Here is a complete list for the platform:
aptitude search build-essential
aptitude search flex
aptitude search bison
aptitude search cmake
aptitude search zlib1g-dev
aptitude search libopenmpi-dev
aptitude search openmpi-bin
aptitude search qt4-dev-tools
aptitude search libqt4-dev
aptitude search libqt4-opengl-dev
aptitude search gnuplot
aptitude search libxt-dev
aptitude search freeglut3-dev
aptitude search libqtwebkit-dev
aptitude search libreadline-dev
aptitude search libncurses-dev
Then you must create a folder that is accesible for all the users, like /usr/local or /opt.
mkdir /usr/local/OpenFOAM
In that folder use the wget command to download the source package for both the base OpenFOAM and Third Party Scripts:
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/foam/OpenFOAM-2.3.1.tgz
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/foam/ThirdParty-2.3.1.tgz
Untar the files
tar -xvzf OpenFoam-x.x.x
tar -xvzf ThirdParty-x.x.x
NOTE: The compilers must be:
GCC: 4.5.0 and above
LLVM Clang: 3.4 and above
Intel ICC: 14.0.1
Edit /etc/profile.d/apps.sh and add the following lines. Then replicate these changes in the apps.sh file of every node.
File: /etc/mail/aliases
<nowiki> ... export FOAM_INST_DIR=/usr/local/OpenFOAM foamDotFile=$FOAM_INST_DIR/OpenFOAM-2.3.1/etc/bashrc [ -f $foamDotFile ] && . $foamDotFile ...</nowiki>
Run ./Allwmake
cd $FOAM_INST_DIR/OpenFOAM-2.3.1/
./Allwmake
Test!
cd $FOAM_INST_DIR/OpenFOAM-2.3.1/bin/
./foamInstallationTest