Installation/Linux/OpenFOAM-2.1.1/Debian
1 Introduction
This page is dedicated to explaining how to install OpenFOAM in Debian. This instructions page might send you to the one for Ubuntu basically due to the close similarity between Ubuntu and Debian, since Ubuntu derives from Debian.
If you do not yet feel comfortable using Linux, then perhaps you better first read the page 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.
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2 Copy-Paste steps
A few notes before you start copy-pasting:
- Lines that start with # 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!
2.1 Debian 6.0 (aka Squeeze)
Here you have at least two choices:
- You can install the Deb packages, which provide a quick and easy way for having a working installation of OpenFOAM 2.1.1. This is the quickest solution for beginners and instructions are provided here: Ubuntu Deb Pack Installation
- WARNING: Debian itself is not yet officially supported using these Deb packages. You'll have to use a hack, where this line:
VERS=$(lsb_release -cs)
should be replaced with this one:VERS=lucid
- WARNING: Debian itself is not yet officially supported using these Deb packages. You'll have to use a hack, where this line:
- You can install from source, by either:
- Following the official instructions from here: Source Pack Installation
- Or by following the detailed step-by-step instructions below...
Discussion thread where you can ask questions about these steps: none so far.
Steps:
- Switch to root mode (administrator) and install the necessary packages (run one line at a time):
sudo -s #if the 'sudo' command tells you're not in the sudoers list, #then remove the # from the next line: #su - #these 2 lines count as a single line, due to the blackslash "\" character apt-get install build-essential flex bison zlib1g-dev qt4-dev-tools libqt4-dev gnuplot libreadline-dev \ libncurses-dev libxt-dev libopenmpi-dev openmpi-bin exit
- Download and unpack (here you can copy-paste all in single go):
#OpenFOAM downloading and installation cd ~ mkdir OpenFOAM cd OpenFOAM wget "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/foam/OpenFOAM-2.1.1.tgz?use_mirror=mesh" -O OpenFOAM-2.1.1.tgz wget "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/foam/ThirdParty-2.1.1.tgz?use_mirror=mesh" -O ThirdParty-2.1.1.tgz tar xzf OpenFOAM-2.1.1.tgz tar xzf ThirdParty-2.1.1.tgz
- For building OpenFOAM itself, it depends on whether you have installed the i386 or x86_64 architecture of Ubuntu. To check this, run:
uname -m
Now, accordingly:
- For i386:
#here you can change 4 to the number of cores you've got echo export WM_NCOMPPROCS=4 > OpenFOAM-2.1.1/etc/prefs.sh echo export WM_MPLIB=SYSTEMOPENMPI >> OpenFOAM-2.1.1/etc/prefs.sh echo export WM_ARCH_OPTION=32 >> OpenFOAM-2.1.1/etc/prefs.sh
- For x86_64:
#here you can change 4 to the number of cores you've got echo export WM_NCOMPPROCS=4 > OpenFOAM-2.1.1/etc/prefs.sh echo export WM_MPLIB=SYSTEMOPENMPI >> OpenFOAM-2.1.1/etc/prefs.sh
- For i386:
- Now to activate the OpenFOAM environment and set it as the default whenever a new terminal is started:
source $HOME/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.1.1/etc/bashrc echo " " >> $HOME/.bashrc echo "source $HOME/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.1.1/etc/bashrc" >> $HOME/.bashrc
- Now let's build OpenFOAM:
(Warning: this may take somewhere from 30 minutes to 6 hours, depending on your machine.)
#Go into OpenFOAM's main source folder cd OpenFOAM-2.1.1 # This next command will take a while... somewhere between 30 minutes to 3-6 hours. ./Allwmake > make.log 2>&1 #Run it a second time for getting a summary of the installation ./Allwmake > make.log 2>&1
- To check if everything went well:
#Check if icoFoam is working icoFoam -help #Edit the file "make.log" and check if there are any error messages #Example: gedit make.log #Create a tarball in case you've seen any errors (it's the first error that matters) #or if you don't understand the output #and attach the file "make.log.tar.gz" to a post in the designated thread tar -czf make.log.tar.gz make.log
- Debian 6.0 comes with CMake 2.8.2, but lets play it safe and do a custom build that provides CMake 2.8.3:
cd $WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR wget "http://www.openfoam.org/mantisbt/file_download.php?file_id=143&type=bug" -O getCmake chmod +x getCmake ./getCmake #We need to fix a damaged file sed -i -e 's=stddeh.h=stddef.h=' cmake-2.8.3/Utilities/cmcurl/strtoofft.h ./makeCmake wmSET $FOAM_SETTINGS
- Now, in order to build ParaView 3.12.0 that comes with OpenFOAM:
cd $WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR ./makeParaView cd $FOAM_UTILITIES/postProcessing/graphics/PV3Readers wmSET $FOAM_SETTINGS ./Allwclean ./Allwmake
- Now you can go read the User Guide: official OpenFOAM User Guide
Discussion thread where you can ask questions about these steps: none so far.
2.2 Debian Wheezy
Here you have at least two choices:
- You can install the Deb packages, which provide a quick and easy way for having a working installation of OpenFOAM 2.1.1. This is the quickest solution for beginners and instructions are provided here: Ubuntu Deb Pack Installation
- WARNING: Debian itself is not yet officially supported using these Deb packages. You'll have to use a hack, where this line:
VERS=$(lsb_release -cs)
should be replaced with this one:VERS=precise
- WARNING: Debian itself is not yet officially supported using these Deb packages. You'll have to use a hack, where this line:
- You can install from source, by either:
- Following the official instructions from here: Source Pack Installation
- Since Debian Wheezy is at the time of this writing (17:34, 27 October 2012 (CEST)) very similar to Ubuntu 12.04, you can try following the instructions meant for this particular Ubuntu version: Installation/Linux/OpenFOAM-2.1.1/Ubuntu#Ubuntu_12.04
2.3 Debian Sid
Here you have at least two choices:
- You can install the Deb packages, which provide a quick and easy way for having a working installation of OpenFOAM 2.1.1. This is the quickest solution for beginners and instructions are provided here: Ubuntu Deb Pack Installation
- WARNING: Debian itself is not yet officially supported using these Deb packages. You'll have to use a hack, where this line:
VERS=$(lsb_release -cs)
should be replaced with this one:VERS=precise
- WARNING: Debian itself is not yet officially supported using these Deb packages. You'll have to use a hack, where this line:
- You can install from source, by either:
- Following the official instructions from here: Source Pack Installation
- Since Debian Sid is at the time of this writing (17:34, 27 October 2012 (CEST)) very similar to Ubuntu 12.10, you can try following the instructions meant for this particular Ubuntu version: Installation/Linux/OpenFOAM-2.1.1/Ubuntu#Ubuntu_12.10