[ValyrianSeif]

Hi

I'm new to openFOAM.


I downloaded the ubunto app from MS Store, and I was able to "run" the cavity tutorial by getting into the tutorial directory on the bash terminal and writing "blockMesh" then "icoFoam" and that's it.

My problem now is that I'm unable to post-process the tutorial results.

When I write "paraFoam" I get this error:
Invalid $PV_PLUGIN_PATH and -plugin-path= not defined
No supplementary Paraview/OpenFOAM reader modules
Using builtin reader: parafoam -vtk
/opt/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-v2006/bin/paraFoam: 420: /opt/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-v2006/bin/paraFoam: paraview: not found

After trying to resolve that error by searching on google and forums to be able to open paraview through terminal, I gave up, I didn't find a systematic solution for what I'm dealing with.

So I wanted to open paraView from its own executable and manually opening the results......but I can't do that because I can't find the folders and files on my Windows Explorer of the case, I can't find the 0, system and constant folders or the results 0 , 0.1, 0.2...etc folders.

I know these issues might be obvious for OF users but I'm unable to get my head around what's going on and why these errors are happening.

Please help me out if you can.

[bestucan]

ubuntu in MS store don't have GUI support. so, even you have a correct paraview package, you cannot open it in terminal. of course, the way is:

sudo apt install paraview

then use touch create a blank file name with *.foam in case folder.
use paraview to open that *.foam file

if you want use GUI in the linux. install Xming in win and search the way to configure it.

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you cannot just operate the file in win explorer. it's risk.
copy or move the file in your linux system to /mnt/c, /mnt/d, /mnt/e.
you'll find the file in your win explorer. c:/ d:/ e:/

[ValyrianSeif]

I tried to install the Xming but I got whole new errors..

However, the cp command worked and I was able to manually open the results on ParaView as you suggested. Thank you so much.

[Haitham Osman CFD]

Try using (explorer.exe .) to open your directory in your windows system.