HowTo Make paraFoam from OpenFOAM15 work on OpenSuse11 by installing Qt435 in home directory

Pierpaolo · April 11, 2009, 10:25

Thank you very much!

It worked here on both Gentoo and Pclinuxos.

mahaputra · April 19, 2009, 05:06

Quote:

Originally Posted by tckosvic

Tammo,

I have worked through my missing make system and gotten Qt-4.3.5 to compile, make, and install into ThirdParty directory of OpenFOAM.

Now when I run paraFoam for the cavity case as in the example, I get message below:

tom@linux-l8tg:~/OpenFOAM/tom-1.5/run/tutorials/icoFoam/cavity> paraFoam

paraview: symbol lookup error: /home/tom/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty/ParaView3.3-cvs/platforms/linuxGcc/bin/libpqCore.s o: undefined symbol: _ZN14QObjectPrivate15checkWindowRoleEv

tom@linux-l8tg:~/OpenFOAM/tom-1.5/run/tutorials/icoFoam/cavity>

After this I went and recompiled paraFoam (7.2 step). When I ran paraFoam again I got the same message regarding undefined symbol.

I do not have enough capabilities with SUSE to diagnose problem any further.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Tom Kosvic

Tammo and Thomas and All

i followed your instruction to install paraview, but i installed it for OpenFOAM-1.5-dev

but i got the error message like this below, when i tried to start paraview

simulation15@user-laptop:~$ paraview
paraview: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/paraview/libpqCore.so: undefined symbol: _ZN11QFormLayout16staticMetaObjectE

and this error when tried to run paraFoam :

simulation15@user-laptop:~/OpenFOAM/simulation15-1.5-dev/run/tutorials/icoFoam/cavity$ paraFoam
paraview: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/paraview/libpqCore.so: undefined symbol: _ZN11QFormLayout16staticMetaObjectE

could you please help me to solve this problem?

lakeat · April 20, 2009, 23:43

Okay, allow me put it here, I found paraFoam didn't work on my OpenSUSE-11.0,
qmake --version shows 4.4.3, gcc is 4.4.0,

what have to note is the error:
/usr/lib/libpython2.5.so, needed by blah blah,

and I did:
ln -s /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 /usr/lib/libpython2.5.so

and recompile util/postprocessing graphics/PV3FoamReader, then paraFoam works.

bigphil · May 1, 2009, 07:48

Hi everybody,

I got ParaFoam to work on openSUSE 11.0 with Qt 4.4.0.

I am using OpenFOAM-1.5-dev.

I installed cmake 2.4-patch 6.

I compiled paraview the usual way and then the PV3FoamReader the usual way too.

It's ParaView-3.3-cvs.

So far paraFoam looks good, I tried it on the icoFoam tutorial case.

Kind Regards,
Philip

sega · May 28, 2009, 11:01

Well, last time it worked and now I get this error when doing

Code:

sudo make install

Code:

make[1]: *** [.obj/release-shared/qapplication.o] Fehler 1

Any ideas whats wrong?

sega · May 28, 2009, 11:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by sega

Well, last time it worked and now I get this error when doing

Code:

sudo make install

Code:

make[1]: *** [.obj/release-shared/qapplication.o] Fehler 1

Any ideas whats wrong?

Just found in another forum that installing

Code:

xorg-dev

fixed the problem!

sega · May 30, 2009, 09:22

After managing to compile the ParaView I am having trouble with my other linux software.

For example, when trying to run kate I get this symbol lookup error

Code:

sega@deepblue:~$ kate
kate: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libkde3support.so.4: undefined symbol: _ZN13QWidgetAction11eventFilterEP7QObjectP6QEvent

Seems to be a problem with this libkde3support?!

sega · June 2, 2009, 19:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by sega

After managing to compile the ParaView I am having trouble with my other linux software.

For example, when trying to run kate I get this symbol lookup error

Code:

sega@deepblue:~$ kate
kate: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libkde3support.so.4: undefined symbol: _ZN13QWidgetAction11eventFilterEP7QObjectP6QEvent

Seems to be a problem with this libkde3support?!

After switching back to Qt 4.5.0 (deleting the Qt related entry in bashrc) I was able to suppress the error message and ParaView is still working!

hansel · June 26, 2009, 12:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by tckosvic

Tammo,

I have worked through my missing make system and gotten Qt-4.3.5 to compile, make, and install into ThirdParty directory of OpenFOAM.

Now when I run paraFoam for the cavity case as in the example, I get message below:

tom@linux-l8tg:~/OpenFOAM/tom-1.5/run/tutorials/icoFoam/cavity> paraFoam

paraview: symbol lookup error: /home/tom/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty/ParaView3.3-cvs/platforms/linuxGcc/bin/libpqCore.s o: undefined symbol: _ZN14QObjectPrivate15checkWindowRoleEv

Thanks,

Tom Kosvic

Tom, how did you solve this problem. In the next post I see you say it worked, but I don't see any post that suggested the fix.

sega · June 26, 2009, 12:32

Quote:

Originally Posted by hansel

Tom, how did you solve this problem. In the next post I see you say it worked, but I don't see any post that suggested the fix.

I had some problems with symbol lookup errors, too.
Which distribution are you using?

I could fix the problem by deleting the Qt related entries in OpenFOAMs bashrc file on my Kubuntu 9.04 system.

hansel · June 26, 2009, 14:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by sega

I had some problems with symbol lookup errors, too.
Which distribution are you using?

I could fix the problem by deleting the Qt related entries in OpenFOAMs bashrc file on my Kubuntu 9.04 system.

I'm on Ubuntu 9.04. I originally had a working OpenFOAM system that I got by a combination of trying to install myself and the installation script that someone put out. But then I tried to upgrade to 1.5.x and messed everything up. (I should have left Thirdparty alone.)

I've compiled with several versions of QT (The one that 4.5 (I think, its the one that installs with package manager), 4.3.1 and 4.3.5. None of my compilations would run. I am currently trying the binary Thirdparty distribution, but I'm still getting the error about libPWCore.so (again trying different Qts) The strange thing is that library is right in the paraview tree, how can it be messed up?

Steve

hansel · June 26, 2009, 14:47

Quote:

Originally Posted by sega

I had some problems with symbol lookup errors, too.
Which distribution are you using?

I could fix the problem by deleting the Qt related entries in OpenFOAMs bashrc file on my Kubuntu 9.04 system.

I don't see any Qt related enteries in bashrc or settings.sh

sega · June 26, 2009, 18:01

Quote:

Originally Posted by wenterodt

3.
add the following lines to your ~/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.5/etc/bashrc at the very end

# set QT related variables
QT=~/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty/Qt-4.3.5
export PATH=$QT/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$QT/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

I'm talking about these entries. Do you put them into OpenFOAM's bashrc?
I had to delete the entry to make it work on my Kubuntu 9.04

April 20, 2009, 23:43		#43
lakeat Senior Member Daniel WEI (老魏) Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Beijing, China Posts: 689 Blog Entries: 9 Rep Power: 21	Okay, allow me put it here, I found paraFoam didn't work on my OpenSUSE-11.0, qmake --version shows 4.4.3, gcc is 4.4.0, what have to note is the error: /usr/lib/libpython2.5.so, needed by blah blah, and I did: ln -s /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0 /usr/lib/libpython2.5.so and recompile util/postprocessing graphics/PV3FoamReader, then paraFoam works. __________________ ~ Daniel WEI ------------- Boeing Research & Technology - China Beijing, China Email

May 1, 2009, 07:48	paraFoam working with Qt 4.4.0	#44
bigphil Super Moderator Philip Cardiff Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Dublin, Ireland Posts: 1,097 Rep Power: 34	Hi everybody, I got ParaFoam to work on openSUSE 11.0 with Qt 4.4.0. I am using OpenFOAM-1.5-dev. I installed cmake 2.4-patch 6. I compiled paraview the usual way and then the PV3FoamReader the usual way too. It's ParaView-3.3-cvs. So far paraFoam looks good, I tried it on the icoFoam tutorial case. Kind Regards, Philip

May 28, 2009, 11:01		#45
sega Senior Member Sebastian Gatzka Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Frankfurt, Germany Posts: 729 Rep Power: 20	Well, last time it worked and now I get this error when doing Code: sudo make install Code: make[1]: *** [.obj/release-shared/qapplication.o] Fehler 1 Any ideas whats wrong? __________________ Schrödingers wife: "What did you do to the cat? It's half dead!"

May 30, 2009, 09:22		#47
sega Senior Member Sebastian Gatzka Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Frankfurt, Germany Posts: 729 Rep Power: 20	After managing to compile the ParaView I am having trouble with my other linux software. For example, when trying to run kate I get this symbol lookup error Code: sega@deepblue:~$ kate kate: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libkde3support.so.4: undefined symbol: _ZN13QWidgetAction11eventFilterEP7QObjectP6QEvent Seems to be a problem with this libkde3support?! __________________ Schrödingers wife: "What did you do to the cat? It's half dead!"

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