[lourencosm]

OpenFOAM v1806 In Ubuntu 16.04,
to install PVReaders i had to:

1) install qt-5.9.3 (qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.9.3.tar.xz)

cd $WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR
./makeQt 5.9.3

2) edit the paraview confg file:

$WM_PROJECT_DIR/etc/config.sh/paraview

replace

ParaView_QT=qt-system

with

ParaView_QT=qt-5.9.3

3) Compile the PVReaders

    cd $WM_PROJECT_DIR/applications/utilities/postProcessing/graphics/PVReaders
    ./Allwclean
    ./Allwmake

[imamwfgf]

Similar to what calim_cfd did. But after running

./makeQt 5.9.3

and

./makeVTK 8.1.1

I still can't run

./makeParaview

Not sure if it's because I skipped installing Mesa. But in the end,

./makeParaview -qt-5.9.3

worked for me

[beatlejuice]

For me the following procedure helped (OF1812, Ubuntu16.04):


Add ppa (see https://askubuntu.com/questions/1062...ubuntu-16-04):


sudo add-apt-repository ppa:beineri/opt-qt-5.11.1-xenial
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install qt511-meta-full

create file default.conf in /etc/xdg/qtchooser with the content:
/opt/qt511/bin
/opt/qt511/lib

Version check:
qmake -v

Gives:
QMake version 3.1 Using Qt version 5.11.1 in /opt/qt511/lib

install paraview:
cd $WM_THIRD_PARTY_DIR
export Qt5_DIR=/opt/qt511/lib/cmake/Qt5
./makeParaView -cmake -qmake -qt-5.11.1


Hope this helps and it is not a stupid way =)

[Saleh Abuhanieh]

Originally Posted by imamwfgf

Similar to what calim_cfd did. But after running

./makeQt 5.9.3

and

./makeVTK 8.1.1

I still can't run

./makeParaview

Not sure if it's because I skipped installing Mesa. But in the end,

./makeParaview -qt-5.9.3

worked for me

That works for me too

[Saleh Abuhanieh]

After solving that problem and compiling paraview, I received the following error when I tried to run paraFoam:


QFontDatabase: Cannot find font directory /opt/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-v1812/platforms/linux64Gcc/qt-5.9.3/lib/fonts.
Note that Qt no longer ships fonts. Deploy some (from http://dejavu-fonts.org for example) or switch to fontconfig.



I found the solution, and posting here:
- cd /opt/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-v1812/platforms/linux64Gcc/qt-5.9.3/lib/
- ln -s /usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/ fonts


That's all


Regards,

[Jesper_Roland]

Originally Posted by TU_Hiwi

okay so i now could install paraview using qt 5.9.5, which should also be LTS. (by the way, is there a difference between "qt-everywhere-src-VER" and "qt-everywhere-opensource-src-VER"?)
installing paraview worked just fine, but if i execute paraFoam the "missing PVFoamReader"-error pops up. Paraview opens up anyway but the fonts (and so any text) is missing. Not suitable for working, i would like to solve that



executing the advised commands (cd $WM_PROJECT_DIR/applications/utilities/postProcessing/graphics/PVReaders
./Allwclean
./Allwmake) works until some error during ./Allwmake state below.

CMake Error at /home/hgl/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-v1806/platforms/linux64Gcc/ParaView-5.5.2/lib/cmake/paraview-5.5/ParaViewQt.cmake:71 (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" (requested
  version 5.6) with any of the following names:

    Qt5Config.cmake
    qt5-config.cmake

Any Ideas what went wrong and how to solve?

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.

[gcengineer]

Thanks for this, Jesper.


This is essentially the same as my solution for building ParaView 5.6.0 with Qt5 for OpenFOAM-7 and OpenFoam-v1906 running under Ubuntu 18.04:


Qt5, OpenFOAM-7 and -v1906, and Ubuntu 18.04

[Rasmusiwersen]

Originally Posted by Jesper_Roland

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.

Once again Jesper, thank you for the suggestion. I've had this problem at every build of OF19.06, but this actualyl worked!

Hope you are doing well

Happy foaming!

[Gerhard]

Hi everybody,


I had the same error as in the first post for OF v1912 and OF v1906.
I found this link, followed it exactly, and it solved my problem! Here it is:

https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/82423956

All the best!

[NablaDyn]

FYI:
I received an error message during compilation ("make" on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, OpenFOAM-v1912) of qt-5.9.3 from this source

Originally Posted by lourencosm

OpenFOAM v1806 In Ubuntu 16.04,
to install PVReaders i had to:

1) install qt-5.9.3 (qt-everywhere-opensource-src-5.9.3.tar.xz)

regarding something like:

socketcanbackend : error: ‘SIOCGSTAMP’ was not declared in this scope; did you mean ‘SIOCSARP’?

As suggested on
https://www.mail-archive.com/blfs-de.../msg08916.html
this was successfully fixed by adding

#include <linux/sockios.h>

to the file

qt-everywhere-src-5.13.0/qtserialbus/src/plugins/canbus/socketcan/socketcanbackend.cpp

A fix for a succeeding error

Project ERROR: Building QtQml requires Python.

is already given here:
failing to build Qt, Project ERROR: Building QtQml requires Python. - ubuntu

[gcengineer]

Wow. zhuanlan.zhihu.com stole my solution word-for-word that I posted here on CFD-online in 2019.

Qt5, OpenFOAM-7 and -v1906, and Ubuntu 18.04

https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/82423956