maysmech

Elvis:
There is the idea of a special interest group teaching http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Sig_Teaching
But I think Professor Janoske has moved from Mosbach to another "bigger" University in Germany.
But there are allready examples of lectures with OpenFoam
http://www.tc1.ch.tum.de/index.php?o...=146&Itemid=65
http://www.ifd.mavt.ethz.ch/education/Lectures/openfoam
http://www.imvt.uni-stuttgart.de/ind..._modellbildung...

Needful installation to ./Allwmake in in the folder $WM_PROJECT_DIR/OpenFOAM-1.7.0:installation several packages, and the one in particular that you are missing is build-essential.
This is a command line that will install most of the necessary (and some possibly unnecessary) packages for building OpenFOAM and ParaView:
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