Revision as of 22:18, 8 June 2014

1 Introduction

Arch Linux is a rolling source-based distribution. It has an official package manager called 'pacman' and its extension 'yaourt' that installs community contributed software packages. The packages installed in this distribution are source-code based, which means that the distribution allways gives access to the newest software versions. This can cause some problems when building and installing foam-extend, as for example PyFoam has not yet been ported to Python 3.

2 Installing rpm-org

Install rpm-org, and remove rpm if you have it already installed.

   yaourt -R rpm 
   yaourt -S rpm-org

3 Installing and configuring virtualenv python virtual environment

Arch uses Python 3.*, and foam-extend relies on Python 2.*. To easily switch between python versions, virtualenv is recommended.

3.1 Installing virtualenv

Install easy_install

   yaourt -S python-setuptools

Install virtualenv:

   sudo easy_install virtualenv

Configure the python2.7 environment for foamext:

   virtualenv -p python2.7 --no-site-packages ~/env/foamext

Source the python2.7 environment for foamext:

   source ~/env/foamext/bin/activate

4 Building foam-extend

Once virtualenv and rpm-org are installed and virtualenv is activated as shown above, follow the tutorial that shows how to build foam-extend on Linux, the rest of the steps are exactly the same as shown there.

5 Arch Linux Versions

5.1 Manjaro Linux

The official website for Manjaro is this: Manjaro Linux

Here you have a few choices:

You can install from source, by either:
- Following the available official instructions from one of these repositories:
  - Building Instructions for Manjaro Linux at the official Extend repository
  - Building Instructions for Manjaro Linux at repo.or.cz mirror
  - Building Instructions for Manjaro Linux at Unofficial-Extend-Project-Mirror@github mirror
  - Note: Before following any of the instructions above, check the section Note regarding foam-extend-3.0

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-<span style="color: red"> WARNING: This page is outdated. For up-to-date installation instructions, please refer to </span>: [[Installation/Linux/foam-extend-3.0]].
 = Introduction =
-This page is dedicated to explaining how to install {{-Extend}} {{version3.0-ext}} in [https://www.archlinux.org/ Arch Linux] and derivatives.
-If you do not yet feel comfortable using Linux, then perhaps you better first read the page [[Installation/Working with the Shell|Working with the Shell]] and train a bit with the shell/terminal environments, so you can have a better perception of the steps shown below.
+[http://www.example.com Arch Linux] is a rolling source-based distribution. It has an official package manager called 'pacman' and its extension 'yaourt' that installs community contributed software packages. The packages installed in this distribution are source-code based, which means that the distribution allways gives access to the newest software versions. This can cause some problems when building and installing foam-extend, as for example PyFoam has not yet been ported to Python 3.
+= Installing rpm-org =
+Install rpm-org, and remove rpm if you have it already installed.
+    yaourt -R rpm
+    yaourt -S rpm-org
+= Installing and configuring virtualenv python virtual environment =
+Arch uses Python 3.*, and foam-extend relies on Python 2.*. To easily switch between python versions, [http://virtualenv.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ virtualenv] is [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1108974/switch-versions-of-python recommended].
+== Installing virtualenv ==
+Install easy_install
+    yaourt -S python-setuptools
+Install virtualenv:
+    sudo easy_install virtualenv
+Configure the python2.7 environment for foamext:
+    virtualenv -p python2.7 --no-site-packages ~/env/foamext
+Source the python2.7 environment for foamext:
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+    source ~/env/foamext/bin/activate
-__TOC__
-= ''Copy-Paste'' steps =
+= Building foam-extend =
-A few notes before you start copy-pasting:
+Once virtualenv and rpm-org are installed and virtualenv is activated as shown above, follow the [http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Installation/Linux/foam-extend-3.0 tutorial] that shows how to build foam-extend on Linux, the rest of the steps are exactly the same as shown there.
-# Lines that start with <tt>#</tt> don't have to be ''copy-pasted''. They are just comments to let you know what's going on.
-# One wrong character is enough for breaking this guide, so make sure you can read the characters properly or that the installed language system does not break the copied characters!
+= Arch Linux Versions =
 == Manjaro Linux ==

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