Unofficial OpenFOAM installation instructions: Install and build automation scripts

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Posted January 23, 2011 at 00:39 by wyldckat
Updated April 21, 2011 at 22:12 by wyldckat

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 page: http://code.google.com/p/nucleation/
For Mandriva 2010, I've made a variant of an old version of Mads script, available here: OpenFOAM-1.6 installation script !! posts #7 and #10
Building in CentOS/RHEL/SL 5.x 64bit: OpenFOAM-1.7.0 for CentOS/RHEL/SL 5.x 64bit released
Another cookbook script, but for installing OpenFOAM 1.5 in modern Linux boxes: Blast from the past: installing OpenFOAM 1.5 in modern Linux boxes