Hi all,
the installation instructions with "sed" lines, etc., have proven to be not working on at least two systems (Ubuntu 12.04, CentOS). I believe they are not up-to-date anymore. Furthermore, we put quite some effort into making the installation as easy as 1) "install required packages" 2) source etc/SHELLNAMErc 3) run ./Allwmake.firstInstall
Only step 1) should be system specific.
I would like to contribute to a revision (and as I hope significant simplification) of the installation instructions on openfoamwiki. The general idea is to start with those three steps and the package lists that I know that work on Ubuntu 12.04/13.10 and Fedora 19/20 (and which I wrote on the wikki homepage). Then gradually add new systems/versions as people come up with "does not work here" posts.
Would that be allright?
Best regards, Dominik
Hi Dominik,
Feel free to take over the management of this page and respective sub-pages! Specially, to change the maintainer's username at the top of the page Installation/Linux/foam-extend-3.0 ;)
I wrote these pages to fill in the gap between the instructions that are on the Git repository and on the Wikki website. In addition, the instructions for Ubuntu are more detailed in certain aspects, as the Allwmake.firstInstall script didn't look bulletproof to me back then. And most of the other Linux Distributions are only present as stubs, pointing to the last known public instructions. And this infrastructure can help the FOAM-Extend project in deprecating the old text files that are on the Git repository.
By the way, the Allwmake.stage5 script is having trouble with installing swak4Foam, which is why I pointed in the wiki to the latest instructions for it: Installation/swak4Foam
Best regards, Bruno
Agreed.
Allwmake.firstInstall should become as bullet-proof as possible, so I will put it up as default installation. If any distros require special measure, we will collect that here.
Regarding Allwmake.stage5, it had a race condition that would case problems in parallel compiling. I though I had it removed by enforcing single processor compilation. Does it still fail for you? Will keep the link to Installation/swak4Foam until this is cleared.
Best regards, Dominik
Hi Dominik,
OK, the problem in AllMake.stage5 with swak4Foam is currently fixed by using the Mercurial repository. But it could also use the SVN repository... let me report this on the bug tracker... OK, updated the existing bug report, comment #518: Unable to build swak4Foam 0.2.4 in foam-extend-3.0
Regarding the latest wiki page iteration: given the past issue with the DMCA take down that occurred over a year ago, as well as issues that some users have with using Git and SVN from Sourceforge.net, I suggest that a wiki page (and respective link) is added for the available git mirrors. If you agree, I can take care of that.
Best regards, Bruno
Hi Bruno, Thanks for your message. Please do include the mirror links. Thank you very much!! Best regards, Dominik
I've added the mirror information and since the Arch Linux related page has been updated, I've rehashed the old idea of using sub-pages for system-specific instructions.
