[EternalSeekerX]

Dear peeps,


I have recently been trying out Fedora 32 and I am wondering if I can get Openfoam 8, Openfoam 2006 and foam extend on it? I have built from source both openfoam 7 and openfoam 1912 on manjaro and i have also compiled foam-extend 4.1 on opensuse by searching for similar pre-req packages in the repo. Similarly I have done the same for Fedora 32, however I wonder if there are additonal steps i need to take? Has anyone sucessfully compiled openfoam (all recent versions) from source? If so how and what documentation you followed?


Thanks

[olesen]

OpenFOAM 1912 and 2006 are available on copr.
However, for some unknown reason Fedora 32 (on copr) has a huge number of broken packages, including CGAL etc. Can't seem to get a clean copr build for Fedora 32.
Fedora 31 and 33, as well as CentOS 7 and 8 (with EPEL) are fine.

[EternalSeekerX]

Originally Posted by olesen

OpenFOAM 1912 and 2006 are available on copr.
However, for some unknown reason Fedora 32 (on copr) has a huge number of broken packages, including CGAL etc. Can't seem to get a clean copr build for Fedora 32.
Fedora 31 and 33, as well as CentOS 7 and 8 (with EPEL) are fine.

Ah!

Well fedora 33 is still testing, so I'll have to wait till release for that. I was using cent os 7 since I use a few commercial software, however every other package is too old. Thats why I chose fedora to get access to cutting edge software while still staying on rhel family.

Have you tried again recently? What specifically is missing if i do compile on f32?

Edit: i have never heard of copr before, is that a repo? What about building from source manually?

[olesen]

Originally Posted by EternalSeekerX

Edit: i have never heard of copr before, is that a repo? What about building from source manually?

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/co...foam/openfoam/



Also has CentOS repos for openfoam

[EternalSeekerX]

Hello again,

Originally Posted by olesen

-snip-

Great news! I have successfully compiled OpenFOAM 2006 on Fedora 32 from source! All I did was search the equivalent pre-requisites. Download the newest metis tar.gz and put it in my thirdparty folder. Also one thing about fedora to note is by default it doesn't load mpi libraries, so i had to use the module load command to load mpi. For ease of you use, just edit the bashrc with

module load 'dir where mpi is located'

And it works. Successfully ran pitzDaily, Cavity and Simplefoam motorBike.

Anyway on to compiling openfoam 8. Shouldn't be an issue i think 🤔

[EternalSeekerX]

Hello again!

Great news! OpenFOAM-8 compiled successfully on Fedora 32. Had most of the pre-requisites from 2006 build so yeah. Ran pitzDaily and simpleFoams mototBike tutorial as well.

[olesen]

I threw out CGAL for the redhat/Fedora builds.
For whatever reasons, CGAL is not available on Fedora 32, and even with an RPM conditional to avoid the macro requirement it was still failing to build.

It now builds
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/co...build/1698461/

Thus should be visible via copr
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/co...foam/packages/

[osepulve32]

Hi everyone,

I'm new in this community and I'm trying to compile from source openFOAM-8 in Fedora 32.

So far I managed to install openfoam following (and modifying accordingly) these instructions for openfoam-dev (Fedora 27): https://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/I...OAM-dev/Fedora

Everything seemed to work out smoothly. However, when executed:

mkdir -p $FOAM_RUN
cd $FOAM_RUN
cp -r $FOAM_TUTORIALS/incompressible/simpleFoam/pitzDaily
cd pitzDaily
blockMesh
simpleFoam
paraFoam

simpleFoam runs but parafoam gives:

FATAL ERROR: The official reader module for OpenFOAM data does not exist on  your system.  ...

Could someone please help me with this?
I'm attaching to this post the log.makePV file

thanks

cheers, Oscar

My Bakground: I have experience with linux but I'm a bit rusty after 4 years dealing with windows only. Although I was using mainly ubuntu.
System details:

Operating System: Fedora 32 (Workstation Edition) 
Architecture: x86-64

[olesen]

Originally Posted by osepulve32

Hi everyone,

FATAL ERROR: The official reader module for OpenFOAM data does not exist on  your system.  ...

Any good reason for not using the normal ParaView/VTK reader? It works in parallel, doesn't rely on a particular version of OpenFOAM etc. I only use the additional plugin if trying to diagnose cellSets and things like that and don't want to run foamToVTK. Apart from that, and perhaps to get corner numbering when examining a blockMesh, I don't think it has much point anymore.

[osepulve32]

OK thanks I'll try that.
Although I'd still like to know what was the problem in installing parafoam.