[WhiteW]

Hello to everyone,
I’m trying to install OpenFOAM 5.x on Centos 6.8.
I’m following the instruction in http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/In...CentOS_SL_RHEL
However I get an error when executing the point 8, using the command:

source $HOME/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-5.x/etc/bashrc WM_COMPILER_TYPE=ThirdParty WM_COMPILER=Gcc48 WM_MPLIB=OPENMPI FOAMY_HEX_MESH=yes

It returns me the following errors:

-bash: asdfsd/: No such file or directory
-bash: asdfsd/: No such file or directory
-bash: _foamSource: command not found
-bash: _foamEval: command not found
-bash: asdfsd/: No such file or directory
-bash: asdfsd/: No such file or directory
-bash: asdfsd/: No such file or directory
-bash: _foamSource: command not found
-bash: _foamSource: command not found
-bash: asdfsd/: No such file or directory
-bash: _foamSource: command not found
-bash: asdfsd/: No such file or directory
-bash: _foamSource: command not found
-bash: asdfsd/: No such file or directory
-bash: _foamSource: command not found
-bash: asdfsd/: No such file or directory
-bash: _foamSource: command not found
-bash: asdfsd/: No such file or directory
-bash: asdfsd/: No such file or directory
-bash: asdfsd/: No such file or directory
-bash: asdfsd/: No such file or directory
-bash: asdfsd/: No such file or directory

'Asdfsd' is an empty directory I created in the OpenFOAM folder (the one that contains OpenFoam-5.x and ThirdParty-5.x folders). Without this folder the error reports the first folder it finds, in alphabetical order

OpenFoam-5.x/: No such file or directory

It seems something related to the export WM_PROJECT_DIR parameter in the openFOAM bashrc..
How can I fix this error?
Thanks,
WhiteW

[wyldckat]

Quick questions:

1. What is the complete path to "asdfsd"?
2. Does it have any spaces or special characters in that name or in the whole path?

Because that type of error message usually appears when a space was used for the folder name.


For example, the following path cannot be used due to the spaces in two of these folders:

/home/Bruno Santos/My CFD Software/OpenFOAM

[WhiteW]

Hi Bruno, thanks for your reply.
The complete path of the folder is:

/home/wissam/OpenFOAM/asdfsd

OpenFOAM folder is:

/home/wissam/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-5.x

There are no spaces in the path.

I tried to edit the OpenFOAM bashrc; if I add after the definition of WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR:

echo $WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR

it returns me a list of four folders:

asdfsd/ OpenFOAM-5.x/ ThirdParty-5.x/ /home/wissam/OpenFOAM

The sourcing works only if i overwrite WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR definition with '/home/wissam/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-5.x' .
However when OpenFOAM is compiled, again, the same error appears when I run a solver.
Any idea?
Thanks,

WhiteW

[WhiteW]

I also tried to change the name of OpenFOAM folder, avoinding the '.' and the '-' however, nothing works.

[wyldckat]

Quick answer: Something very wrong is going on. Try the following steps:

1. Edit your "~/.bashrc" file and comment out any references to any OpenFOAM versions, unless the line starts with "alias".
2. Save and close the file in the text editor.
3. Start a new terminal.
4. Test if there are any environment variables that mentioned "OpenFOAM" or "foam":
   

   export | grep -i -e OpenFOAM -e foam

5. If there are none, then try running:
   

   source $HOME/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-5.x/etc/bashrc WM_COMPILER_TYPE=ThirdParty WM_COMPILER=Gcc48 WM_MPLIB=OPENMPI FOAMY_HEX_MESH=yes

6. If it gives any error message, try:
   

   ls -l $HOME/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-5.x

   to see if it's pointing to somewhere else.
7. If the previous command does not indicate that there is a symbolic link, then run:
   

   cd $HOME/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-5.x/etc
   git checkout bashrc

   which will undo any changes to the "bashrc" file... although this is assuming that you used git to download the folder "OpenFOAM-5.x".
8. Continuing from #7, start a new terminal and run again the command from #5.
9. Hopefully it should work at this point.

[WhiteW]

Hi Bruno,
with respect the online procedure I did this:
- when I run "git clone" comand I get the error:

git clone https://github.com/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-5.x.git
Cloning into 'OpenFOAM-5.x'...
error: SSL connect error while accessing https://github.com/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-5.x.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack
fatal: HTTP request failed

So I did the git clone comands in a local machine and then sent the two folders to the Centos system via scp.

- I used the option "--no-check-certificate" on the wget comands
- when downloading CGAL I get the error about a too long file name so, I used the comand

wget -O download/CGAL-4.10.tar.xz https://github.com/CGAL/cgal/releases/download/releases%2FCGAL-4.10/CGAL-4.10.tar.xz --no-check-certificate

Now I did everything in a new user (fermat) in my Centos machine.
My new bashrc, now does not contain any reference to OpenFOAM.

When I run your point 4:

export | grep -i -e OpenFOAM -e foam

I get:

declare -x PWD="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM"

running again the export, after the source comand I get:

declare -x FOAM_INST_DIR="altro/
OpenFOAM-5.x/
/home/fermat/OpenFOAM"
declare -x FOAM_SETTINGS="WM_COMPILER_TYPE=ThirdParty WM_COMPILER=Gcc48 WM_MPLIB=OPENMPI FOAMY_HEX_MESH=yes"
declare -x FOAM_SIGFPE=""
declare -x PWD="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM"
declare -x WM_PROJECT="OpenFOAM"
OpenFOAM-5.x/
/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-5.x"
OpenFOAM-5.x/
/home/fermat/OpenFOAM"
declare -x WM_PROJECT_USER_DIR="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/fermat-5.x"
OpenFOAM-5.x/
/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.x"

Have I to delete that environmental variables before proceding to point 5?
Thanks,
WhiteW

[wyldckat]

Quick answer: I don't know what's happening exactly, but for whatever reason, the environment variable "FOAM_INST_DIR" is being defined in a very weird way.

Please edit the file "OpenFOAM-5.x/etc/bashrc", then look for the following lines:

[ "$BASH" -o "$ZSH_NAME" ] && \
export FOAM_INST_DIR=$(cd $(dirname ${BASH_SOURCE:-$0})/../.. && pwd -P) || \
export FOAM_INST_DIR=$HOME/$WM_PROJECT

Change them to this:

# [ "$BASH" -o "$ZSH_NAME" ] && \
# export FOAM_INST_DIR=$(cd $(dirname ${BASH_SOURCE:-$0})/../.. && pwd -P) || \
export FOAM_INST_DIR=$HOME/$WM_PROJECT

Save and close the file.

Then start a new terminal and try running the source command once again (the one from step #5 on my previous post). Then check again what export + grep gives you (step #4).


As for the problems with downloading CGAL, that error message is really strange... you can download the file manually on your browser, by using the link that starts with https, namely:

 https://github.com/CGAL/cgal/releases/download/releases%2FCGAL-4.10/CGAL-4.10.tar.xz

then place the downloaded file "CGAL-4.10.tar.xz" inside the folder "ThirdParty-5.x/download".

[WhiteW]

Hi Bruno,
I edited the OpenFOAM bashrc, then I run the source without problem, only the following warning:

Warning in /home/fermat/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-5.x/etc/config.sh/settings:
    Cannot find /home/fermat/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.x/platforms/linux64/gcc-4.8.5 installation.
    Please install this compiler version or if you wish to  use the system compiler,
    change the 'WM_COMPILER_TYPE' setting to 'system'

then when I run export, I get:

declare -x BOOST_ARCH_PATH="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.x/platforms/linux64Gcc48/boost_1_55_0"
declare -x CGAL_ARCH_PATH="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.x/platforms/linux64Gcc48/CGAL-4.10"
declare -x FOAMY_HEX_MESH="yes"
declare -x FOAM_APP="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-5.x/applications"
declare -x FOAM_APPBIN="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-5.x/platforms/linux64Gcc48DPInt32Opt/bin"
declare -x FOAM_ETC="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-5.x/etc"
declare -x FOAM_EXT_LIBBIN="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.x/platforms/linux64Gcc48DPInt32/lib"
declare -x FOAM_INST_DIR="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM"
declare -x FOAM_JOB_DIR="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/jobControl"
declare -x FOAM_LIBBIN="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-5.x/platforms/linux64Gcc48DPInt32Opt/lib"
declare -x FOAM_MPI="openmpi-2.1.1"
declare -x FOAM_RUN="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/fermat-5.x/run"
declare -x FOAM_SETTINGS="WM_COMPILER_TYPE=ThirdParty WM_COMPILER=Gcc48 WM_MPLIB=OPENMPI FOAMY_HEX_MESH=yes"
declare -x FOAM_SIGFPE=""
declare -x FOAM_SITE_APPBIN="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/site/5.x/platforms/linux64Gcc48DPInt32Opt/bin"
declare -x FOAM_SITE_LIBBIN="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/site/5.x/platforms/linux64Gcc48DPInt32Opt/lib"
declare -x FOAM_SOLVERS="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-5.x/applications/solvers"
declare -x FOAM_SRC="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-5.x/src"
declare -x FOAM_TUTORIALS="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-5.x/tutorials"
declare -x FOAM_USER_APPBIN="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/fermat-5.x/platforms/linux64Gcc48DPInt32Opt/bin"
declare -x FOAM_USER_LIBBIN="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/fermat-5.x/platforms/linux64Gcc48DPInt32Opt/lib"
declare -x FOAM_UTILITIES="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-5.x/applications/utilities"
declare -x GMP_ARCH_PATH="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.x/platforms/linux64/gmp-5.1.2"
declare -x LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.x/platforms/linux64Gcc48/gperftools-svn/lib:/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.x/platforms/linux64Gcc48/ParaView-5.4.0/lib/paraview-5.4:/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-5.x/platforms/linux64Gcc48DPInt32Opt/lib/openmpi-2.1.1:/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.x/platforms/linux64Gcc48DPInt32/lib/openmpi-2.1.1:/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.x/platforms/linux64Gcc48/openmpi-2.1.1/lib:/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.x/platforms/linux64Gcc48/openmpi-2.1.1/lib64:/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.x/platforms/linux64/mpc-1.0.1/lib64:/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.x/platforms/linux64/mpfr-3.1.2/lib64:/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.x/platforms/linux64/gmp-5.1.2/lib64:/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.x/platforms/linux64/gcc-4.8.5/lib64:/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/fermat-5.x/platforms/linux64Gcc48DPInt32Opt/lib:/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/site/5.x/platforms/linux64Gcc48DPInt32Opt/lib:/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-5.x/platforms/linux64Gcc48DPInt32Opt/lib:/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.x/platforms/linux64Gcc48DPInt32/lib:/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-5.x/platforms/linux64Gcc48DPInt32Opt/lib/dummy"
declare -x MANPATH="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.x/platforms/linux64Gcc48/openmpi-2.1.1/share/man:/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.x/platforms/linux64/gcc-4.8.5/man:/usr/share/man:"
declare -x MPFR_ARCH_PATH="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.x/platforms/linux64/mpfr-3.1.2"
declare -x MPI_ARCH_PATH="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.x/platforms/linux64Gcc48/openmpi-2.1.1"
declare -x OPAL_PREFIX="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.x/platforms/linux64Gcc48/openmpi-2.1.1"
declare -x PATH="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.x/platforms/linux64Gcc48/gperftools-svn/bin:/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.x/platforms/linux64Gcc48/ParaView-5.4.0/bin:/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.x/platforms/linux64Gcc48/openmpi-2.1.1/bin:/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.x/platforms/linux64/gcc-4.8.5/bin:/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/fermat-5.x/platforms/linux64Gcc48DPInt32Opt/bin:/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/site/5.x/platforms/linux64Gcc48DPInt32Opt/bin:/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-5.x/platforms/linux64Gcc48DPInt32Opt/bin:/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-5.x/bin:/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-5.x/wmake:/opt/CD-adapco/11.06.010-R8/STAR-View+11.06.010/bin:/opt/CD-adapco/11.06.010-R8/STAR-CCM+11.06.010-R8/star/bin:/opt/shared/CD-adapco/STAR-View+10.04.011:/opt/shared/CD-adapco/STAR-CCM+10.04.011-R8/star/bin:/opt/torque413/sbin:/opt/torque413/bin:/opt/maui33/bin:/opt/maui33/sbin:/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/ofed154/bin:/opt/ofed154/sbin:/home/fermat/bin"
declare -x PV_PLUGIN_PATH="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-5.x/platforms/linux64Gcc48DPInt32Opt/lib/paraview-5.4"
declare -x PWD="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM"
declare -x ParaView_DIR="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.x/platforms/linux64Gcc48/ParaView-5.4.0"
declare -x ParaView_INCLUDE_DIR="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.x/platforms/linux64Gcc48/ParaView-5.4.0/include/paraview-5.4"
declare -x WM_DIR="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-5.x/wmake"
declare -x WM_PROJECT="OpenFOAM"
declare -x WM_PROJECT_DIR="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-5.x"
declare -x WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM"
declare -x WM_PROJECT_USER_DIR="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/fermat-5.x"
declare -x WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR="/home/fermat/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.x"

[wyldckat]

OK, then now it's finally working as intended... even if it doesn't look like it.

Now you are meant to continue from step #9 on section "CentOS 6.9" on this page: https://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/I...HEL#CentOS_6.9

However, since you are having problems downloading files, you will need to download manually the following files:

http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gmp/gmp-5.0.1.tar.bz2
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/mpfr/mpfr-2.4.2.tar.bz2
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/mpc/mpc-0.8.1.tar.gz
http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gcc/gcc-4.5.1/gcc-4.5.1.tar.bz2
http://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/sourceware.org/pub/binutils/releases/binutils-2.23.tar.bz2

Then place the downloaded files inside the folder "ThirdParty-5.x/download".

Then you can proceed with step #9.

[WhiteW]

Hi Bruno,
I finished the installation, now everything works well, also the solvers.
Thanks for your help, as usual!
WhiteW

[alinuman15]

Hi Bruno:-
I have followed all the steps in the link:-
http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/In...CentOS_SL_RHEL

However, when reached step 16: -source /opt/rh/python27/enable , I got:-

-bash: /opt/rh/python27/enable: No such file or directory

Knowing that I could not install python from step 4 since I don't have root access, so what to do?
Thanks!

[wyldckat]

Quick answer: That is an optional step... Notice that right below the first block of code in step #16.1, is the following sentence:

Note: If the SCL repository is not being used when following these instructions, then run the last line like this:

which is referring to not having Python from SCL...

[alinuman15]

Originally Posted by wyldckat

Quick answer: That is an optional step... Notice that right below the first block of code in step #16.1, is the following sentence:

which is referring to not having Python from SCL...

Then, I am going to follow up with my installation until the end. I would report the progress.
Thanks!

[alinuman15]

Hi Bruno:-
Unfortunately, when I tried to build up OF(step 18), The mpi is messed up with version 2.2.1 as you could see from the inserted log file.
Any idea ?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AV8...ew?usp=sharing

[alinuman15]

I have run :

  ./makeGcc gmp-5.1.2  mpfr-3.1.2  mpc-1.0.1  gcc-4.8.5

but got:

make[5]: *** [_gcov_fork.o] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/aibrah8/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.x/build/linux64/gcc-4.8.5/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/32/libgcc'
make[4]: *** [multi-do] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/aibrah8/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.x/build/linux64/gcc-4.8.5/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/libgcc'
make[3]: *** [all-multi] Error 2
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/aibrah8/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.x/build/linux64/gcc-4.8.5/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/libgcc'
make[2]: *** [all-stage1-target-libgcc] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/aibrah8/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.x/build/linux64/gcc-4.8.5'
make[1]: *** [stage1-bubble] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/aibrah8/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-5.x/build/linux64/gcc-4.8.5'
make: *** [all] Error 2
Error building: gcc-4.8.5

so ... what to do ?


Then when I run:-

./getBinutils
./makeBinutils gcc-4.8.5 > log.makeBinutils 2>&1

I got:

gcc-4.8.5 isn't built yet.

Sorry for long reports on different posts ( but just wanted to report for others).
Fortunately, I resolved it by:

 ./makeGcc -no-multilib gcc-4.8.5

So that built gcc-4.8.5, gmp-5.1.2, mpfr-3.1.2 and mpc-1.0.1 altogether.