[student666]

Hi,

it's first time I'm using Mint, but I thought it was quite straight forward to install, just like Ubuntu, but...
when I follow instruction at
https://openfoam.org/download/dev-ubuntu/

I got the following message when I try to install

Unable to locate package openfoam-dev

If I follow this instruction

https://openfoam.org/download/4-1-ubuntu/

I have no problem.

Why? What can I do?

I would like to have -dev branch

thanks

[wyldckat]

Quick answer: Run the following commands:

echo "deb http://dl.openfoam.org/ubuntu xenial dev" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openfoam.list
sudo sh -c "wget -O - http://dl.openfoam.org/gpg.key | apt-key add -"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install openfoam-dev

The reason is that Mint uses other names and therefore it doesn't have straight forward support. The trick shown above relies on adding the repository as if it were Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial".


edit: I didn't notice before that it had worked for you to add the repository for OpenFOAM 4.1. Did you really use:

sudo add-apt-repository http://dl.openfoam.org/ubuntu

and it worked without problems?
If it did, I guess that the problem was the name of the sub-repository? Because the default is "main", but for OpenFOAM-dev, it needs to use the "dev" sub-repository...

[student666]

Thank you Bruno.
This lines

echo "deb http://dl.openfoam.org/ubuntu xenial dev" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openfoam.list
sudo sh -c "wget -O - http://dl.openfoam.org/gpg.key | apt-key add -"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install openfoam-dev

worked for me, but no paraFoam have been installed.

I think any package for paraview have been downloaded.

Should I download apart and run

./Allwmake

inside?

/opt/openfoam-dev/applications/utilities/postProcessing/graphics/PVReaders

[wyldckat]

Quick answers:

Originally Posted by student666

but no paraFoam have been installed.

I think any package for paraview have been downloaded.

Try running:

sudo apt-get install paraviewopenfoam50

If it fails to install, then you might need to also add the "main" repository:

echo "deb http://dl.openfoam.org/ubuntu xenial main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openfoam.main.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install paraviewopenfoam50

Originally Posted by student666

Should I download apart and run

./Allwmake

inside?

/opt/openfoam-dev/applications/utilities/postProcessing/graphics/PVReaders

Should not be necessary.

[student666]

Hi Bruno,

indeed it was suceffully with both instructions you provided, but then I had the same problem.

I looked for a solution on the web and I found an old post from yours.

ThirdParty-2.1.0 installation error

After

wmSet
which paraview

it started working, sorry to ask about, but what in the specific I did?!?

Thanks

[wyldckat]

Originally Posted by student666

After

wmSet
which paraview

it started working, sorry to ask about, but what in the specific I did?!?

Quick answer: It sort-of refreshed the environment. Essentially it did the usual command for loading/sourcing the OpenFOAM environment. You can check it by running:

alias wmSet

You can see all currently loaded aliases by running:

alias

If you're curious and want to learn more, see this wiki page: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/In...with_the_Shell