[dferrando]

Hi, foamers!

I am currently using OF 4.1 and paraview 5.0.1 but I want to use paraview 5.4 instead. I have been trying to upgrade paraview version with:

./makeParaview -version 5.4.0

but did not work.
I have downloaded the source files. I know I can use binary installer as a portable paraview, but I would like to be able to use paraFoam v5.4.0.

Can someboy help me? Please.

Thank you guys.

Diego.

[anydimenx]

Hi, Diego.
In the directory OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-4.1/etc/config.sh, there is a file named paraview.
In that file, you can find such a line:

export ParaView_VERSION=5.0.1

you can modify it as you want. And then download the corresponding paraview source files from the official website. Extract the directory from the compressed package and put it into ThirdParty-4.1 directory, then type the command in that directory in the terminal:
./makeParaView

It would work. Good luck!

[dferrando]

Originally Posted by anydimenx

Hi, Diego.
In the directory OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-4.1/etc/config.sh, there is a file named paraview.
In that file, you can find such a line:

export ParaView_VERSION=5.0.1

you can modify it as you want. And then download the corresponding paraview source files from the official website. Extract the directory from the compressed package and put it into ThirdParty-4.1 directory, then type the command in that directory in the terminal:
./makeParaView

It would work. Good luck!

Thanks for the help! Althought it seemed to work it has returned the next Error and it has stopped.

CMake Error at VTK/GUISupport/Qt/CMakeLists.txt:69 (find_package):
  By not providing "FindQt5.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has
  asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "Qt5", but
  CMake did not find one.

  Could not find a package configuration file provided by "Qt5" with any of
  the following names:

    Qt5Config.cmake
    qt5-config.cmake

  Add the installation prefix of "Qt5" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set "Qt5_DIR"
  to a directory containing one of the above files.  If "Qt5" provides a
  separate development package or SDK, be sure it has been installed.


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/home/diego/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-4.1/build/linux64Gcc/ParaView-5.4.0/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
See also "/home/diego/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-4.1/build/linux64Gcc/ParaView-5.4.0/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".

[wyldckat]

Quick answer: You probably have solved this by now. If you are using Ubuntu, then you need to:

1. Use the more recent ThirdParty 5.x folder, as well as the PVReader folder from OpenFOAM 5.x, in order for it to work properly with OpenFOAM 4.1.
2. On Ubuntu, you must install Qt 4 and use the following command before building ParaView:
   

   export QT_SELECT=qt4

[Jesper_Roland]

Originally Posted by dferrando

Thanks for the help! Althought it seemed to work it has returned the next Error and it has stopped.

CMake Error at VTK/GUISupport/Qt/CMakeLists.txt:69 (find_package):
  By not providing "FindQt5.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this project has
  asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by "Qt5", but
  CMake did not find one.

  Could not find a package configuration file provided by "Qt5" with any of
  the following names:

    Qt5Config.cmake
    qt5-config.cmake

  Add the installation prefix of "Qt5" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or set "Qt5_DIR"
  to a directory containing one of the above files.  If "Qt5" provides a
  separate development package or SDK, be sure it has been installed.


-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/home/diego/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-4.1/build/linux64Gcc/ParaView-5.4.0/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
See also "/home/diego/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-4.1/build/linux64Gcc/ParaView-5.4.0/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".

You can also search for the missing files by:


So for example in my case it cannot find Qt5CoreConfig.cmake.

Follow these steps:

3.1) sudo apt update (Only the first time you search for files.)


3.2) apt-file search Qt5CoreConfig.cmake


3.3) It should now return a message similar to the following:
qtbase5-dev: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/Qt5Core/Qt5CoreConfig.cmake


3.4) So we need to install qtbase5-dev. This is done with the command:
sudo apt install qtbase5-dev


3.5) Now you can run your the paraview compilation again:
./makeParaview



Now it just repeating until you have all the required files and installations.