[KTG]

Hi Foamers,


I was really really excite to see ESI was offering precompiled binaries for Fedora, because I regularly have a very frustrating experience trying to compile from source twice a year. However, I can't install:

Error: 
 Problem: package openfoam2006-default-201012-201012.fc31.x86_64 requires openfoam2006-devel = 201012, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package openfoam2006-devel-201012-201012.fc31.noarch requires openfoam2006 = 201012, but none of the providers can be installed
  - conflicting requests
  - nothing provides libmpi.so.40()(64bit) needed by openfoam2006-201012-201012.fc31.x86_64
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)

I have a working MPI installation, which I use with an old version of OF compiled from source. Anyone have any insights here?


Thanks

[olesen]

Originally Posted by KTG

I have a working MPI installation, which I use with an old version of OF compiled from source. Anyone have any insights here?

This was a really annoying one - it's nothing with you or your installation. I believe I have it solved now and have kicked off another build that I think should be good. Will update on the issue tracker - https://develop.openfoam.com/Develop...am/issues/1893

It would be good we communicate on that for the final tests (you can be one the people to "sign-off" the changes if you wish). When the dust is finally settled we can either post a summary here, or a link to the solution.
Thanks for bearing with us!

EDIT: if you are desperate to install, you can override with allowing broken packages (the mpi problem is an "accounting" error) but the scotch bits were also busted.

[KTG]

Ahh, that is interesting, I was having ptscotch troubles while trying to build from source. I have an old build that still works so I will give the copr version another try when its ready.



Thanks!

[KTG]

I was able to install today! However, it didn't add the path. I was able to get things working by sourcing the bashrc in /usr/lib/openfoam/openfoam2006/etc, but I am getting the impression from the documentation that this is not the way things are intended to work. I read that the idea is to be able to install multiple versions alongside one another, and it seems like "openfoam-selector" should tell the system which bashrc to source? Is there any example of its usage? I tried



openfoam-selector --register v2006 --source-dir /usr/lib/openfoam/openfoam2006/


which failed. Anyway its nice to have a working install - thanks for supporting Fedora!

[olesen]

Originally Posted by KTG

I was able to install today! However, it didn't add the path. I was able to get things working by sourcing the bashrc in /usr/lib/openfoam/openfoam2006/etc, but I am getting the impression from the documentation that this is not the way things are intended to work. I read that the idea is to be able to install multiple versions alongside one another, and it seems like "openfoam-selector" should tell the system which bashrc to source? Is there any example of its usage? I tried

openfoam-selector --register v2006 --source-dir /usr/lib/openfoam/openfoam2006/

which failed. Anyway its nice to have a working install - thanks for supporting Fedora!

The registration is normally done at the time of installation, but you can also do it afterwards. You would want to have the following (needs root).

openfoam-selector --register openfoam2006 --source-dir /usr/lib/openfoam/openfoam2006 --yes

After that, the --list option should list what is available.
Try man openfoam-selector. If the examples need improvement, make suggestions.
Probably the openfoam-selector-menu is easiest.

Note that you probably still need to load your mpi modules too. In general, however, I would suggest the shell session as a good alternative.

$ openfoam2006 
Using: OpenFOAM-2006 (patch=201012) - visit www.openfoam.com
Arch:  linux64GccDPInt32Opt (mpi=openmpi-system)
OpenFOAM shell session - use exit to quit