Installation/Linux/OpenFOAM-2.1.1/Fedora

1 Introduction

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

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2.1 Fedora 17

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

Steps:

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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