Installation/Linux/OpenFOAM-2.1.1/Fedora

1 Introduction

This page is dedicated to explaining how to install OpenFOAM in Fedora.

2 Copy-Paste steps

2.1 Fedora 17

For building OpenFOAM itself, it depends on whether you have installed the i386 or x86_64 architecture of Fedora. To check this, run:

uname -m

Now, accordingly:

• For i386:

   
  #package installation
  sudo yum groupinstall 'Development Tools' 
  sudo yum install openmpi openmpi-devel qt-devel qt-webkit-devel zlib-devel cmake
   
  #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 
   
  #forcefully load Open-MPI into the environment
  module load openmpi-i386
   
  #here you can change 4 to the number of cores you've got
  source $HOME/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.1.1/etc/bashrc WM_NCOMPPROCS=4 WM_MPLIB=SYSTEMOPENMPI WM_ARCH_OPTION=32
   
  echo "module load openmpi-i386" >> $HOME/.bashrc
  echo "source $HOME/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.1.1/etc/bashrc $FOAM_SETTINGS" >> $HOME/.bashrc
   
  #forgot that we need to go into OpenFOAM's main folder as well
  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

• For x86_64:

  #package installation
  sudo yum groupinstall 'Development Tools' 
  sudo yum install openmpi openmpi-devel qt-devel qt-webkit-devel zlib-devel cmake
   
  #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 
   
  #forcefully load Open-MPI into the environment
  module load openmpi-x86_64       
   
  #here you can change 4 to the number of cores you've got
  source $HOME/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.1.1/etc/bashrc WM_NCOMPPROCS=4 WM_MPLIB=SYSTEMOPENMPI
   
  echo "module load openmpi-x86_64" >> $HOME/.bashrc
  echo "source $HOME/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-2.1.1/etc/bashrc $FOAM_SETTINGS" >> $HOME/.bashrc
   
  #forgot that we need to go into OpenFOAM's main folder as well
  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 or 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

Now, in order to build ParaView 3.12.0 that comes with OpenFOAM:

 
cd $WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR
sed -i -e 's/ClearAndSelect = Clear | Select/ClearAndSelect = static_cast<int>(Clear) | static_cast<int>(Select)/' ParaView-3.12.0/Qt/Core/pqServerManagerSelectionModel.h
./makeParaView -qmake $(which qmake-qt4)
 
cd $FOAM_UTILITIES/postProcessing/graphics/PV3Readers 
wmSET $FOAM_SETTINGS
./Allwclean 
./Allwmake

Discussion thread where you can ask questions about these steps: Install OpenFOAM-2.1.1 on Fedora 17