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Installation of OpenFOAM 2.3.0 / 2.3.x on RHEL 5.8 without root permissions

Posted July 7, 2017 at 04:08 by kindle
Updated July 10, 2017 at 04:55 by kindle (add the right way to check the interior mesh)

Take a look at the paraview setting.

Here is a page saying that to check the mesh inside a geometry (https://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/FAQ/Postprocessing). The right thing to do is not the clip nor the slice. But
1. load the case unchecking polyhedral decomposition
2. filter : Extract Cells by Region

Quote:
Originally Posted by niX1337 View Post
Hello Bruno,

my bad, I have no idea why it did not work for OF 2.3.1 ... but it worked perfectly with OF 2.3.x. That's why I guess I made a mistake during the 2.3.1 compilation.

To summarize for those who need to install OpenFOAM without admin rights:
  • Skip the root commands in the instructions.
  • Whenever an error occurs, start with the log file, go into the make files and try to find out which package could have caused the issue. For me it was a buggy flex version.
  • Compile the neccessary package on your own and load the excecutables into the environment (make sure you add the path on the beginning of $PATH).
  • Retry the compilation process.
As paraview requires too many packages that are missing on my workstation, I simply installed the binary version from the paraview website. To link paraview with OpenFOAM, I use the "paraFoam -bulitin" option. Only the $Paraview_DIR variable needs to be edited.

Bruno, thanks again for your kind help!

Best regards,
Nicolas
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