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<-- List of threads useful for building OpenFOAM and other Third Party tools

Install and build automation scripts:

• Mads Reck OpenFOAM-1.6 install cookbook for Ubuntu - #316 has the latest (8 of April of 2010) scripts for Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10. Additionally, that thread is loaded with little pearls of wisdom!
• Fabio Canesin's fork of Mads script, which is more of a "robotic cooking machine", which I've helped a lot: OpenFOAM 1.6.x Installer for Ubuntu - New project

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To create the new solver in openFoam version 1.7.1, pimpleDyMFoam is used as a guideline. Original icoFoam, included in the release, will be modified by adding all the code related to mesh motion management present in pimpleDyMFoam.

This process will be detailed step by step in further entries.

<-- Related issues to ParaView with OpenFOAM - Fixes and solutions

This blog post is for those users who want to build ParaView 3.8.0 that comes with OpenFOAM's ThirdParty, version 1.7.0/1/x.


In case you don't know, ParaView 3.8.0 that comes with OpenFOAM 1.7.0/1, doesn't build very well with Qt 4.7. So, in case your system's Qt is already using 4.7, then you should play safe and follow the instructions in this blog post. If you don't know which version it has,...

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E0BD7612

add to your "sources.list" /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list (on a real debian distribution)
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/cae-team/ppa/ubuntu/ lucid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/cae-team/ppa/ubuntu/ lucid main
#deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free #non-free is needed for libparmetis3.1 (this line is only necessary on some debian based distibutions...

Here's the scenario: You need the latest OpenFOAM 1.7.x git version, but your Linux machine is stranded on a deserted lab without access to the internet or to any other machine that does have access to the internet. The only machine with internet access that you have access to, is on some other place in the world and on top of that, uses Windows for an operating system. But that certain Windows machine is yours and/or you have administrative powers over it!

What can you do? Install...