[kallipygian]

Dear Foamers,

I had successfully installed OpenFOAM 1.5 at my /home directory. Later I decided to install the patches from OpenFOAM from git repository. This is the procedure I followed.

I downloaded the OpenFOAM patched source code using the command:

git clone git://repo.or.cz/OpenFOAM-1.5.x.git

This created a directory called OpenFOAM-1.5.x, containing the source code in my /home folder. I transferred it to the already existing OpenFOAM folder in my /home directory and edited the .bashrc with the line:

. $HOME/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.5.x/etc/bashrc

I made sure that the previous entry for OprnFOAM-1.5 was deleted. Then I compiled the library with ./Allwmake command. Now, all my solvers, utilities etc works fine. But, paraview starts crashing. when I tested it on icoFoam tutorial case.

I then compiled Paraview 3.3 and PV3FoamReader module following the steps mentioned in the OpenFOAM site by executing the following command.

* cd $FOAM_INST_DIR/ThirdParty
* rm -rf ParaView3.3-cvs/platforms
* buildParaView3.3-cvs

For PV3FoamReader module:

* cd $FOAM_UTILITIES/postProcessing/graphics/PV3FoamReader
* ./Allwclean
* ./Allwmake

Now, when I run paraFoam on the icoFoam tutorial case, I get the following message

"/home/mechartes/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty/ParaView3.3-cvs/platforms/linuxGcc/bin/para view-real: error while loading shared libraries: libQtAssistantClient.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

Is it asking me to install Qt4 now? I am a bit confused. I really need to install the patched version of OpenFOAM. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
Alekh

[kallipygian]

I already have Qt-4.3.1 Installed! Qmake returns the following:

QMake version 2.01a
Using Qt version 4.3.1 in /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.3.1/lib

[kallipygian]

I can see "libQtAssistantClient.so.4" at /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.3.1/lib

[kallipygian]

There is some more info that I can provide:

Its trying to load "paraview-real" while in 1.5 the paraFoam command loads "paraview"

After running the script "buildParaView3.3-cvs" from 1.5.x somehow paraview-real is also installed and paraFoam is using this application instead of paraview.

I do not know why this is happening.. has anyone else faced the same problem with OpenFOAM-1.5.x installation?

Please help, I am not able to move any further than this roadblock.

[kallipygian]

Ding! :-( Any Hints?

Dear foamers,
Which edition of LINUX should I installed?should I install the linux parallelly with Windows or should I install it on the virtual drive?Does the latter have any influence the computation of OpenFOAM?
Thanks for your response

[villet]

Alekh,

if you type "echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH", do you see "/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.3.1/lib" in the output? If not, try command "export /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.3.1/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH". Then run paraFoam, do you still see the same error message?

I would like to stress one thing. I know it's annoying that sometimes things don't work. However, this is not commercial support.

[villet]

The correct command is "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.3.1/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"

[kallipygian]

Ville,

Thanks, I truly appreciate your help. It works! :-)

I understand its not a commercial support and its just the lack of time which got me restless. I sincerly appreciate the work that has been done by the community and the core developers.

[eeftekhari]

Thanks a lot Ville, you are great!

[nirmalrishi]

Hi,

When I tried to run buildParaView3.3-cvs after rmoving platforms directory, i got the following messages.

[ 52%] [ 52%] Building CXX object Utilities/VTKClientServer/Graphics/CMakeFiles/vtkGraphicsCS.dir/vtkWindowedSincPolyDataFilterClientServer.o
Building CXX object Utilities/VTKClientServer/Graphics/CMakeFiles/vtkGraphicsCS.dir/vtkGraphicsCSInit.o
Linking CXX shared library ../../../bin/libvtkGraphicsCS.so
[ 52%] Built target vtkGraphicsCS
make: *** [all] Error 2
done


please let me know, how can i avoid this and complete the installation?