[gascortado]

Hi.

After spending a month worth of evenings trying to get OpenFOAM running I will appreciate if anyone can help. Let me describe my problem:

I succesfully installed OpenFOAM in my system with Ubuntu 9.10. I tested my installation and there is no errors of any kind. BlockMesh and icoFoam run with no problem.

Then the usual problem, when I typed paraFoam the "command not found" appeared. Thru forums I try to install the right version of Qt with no luck. I decided then to download and install the new version of Paraview 3.6.2.

I succesfully installed paraview 3.6.2 but when I type paraFoam the follwoing happens:

GLIBCXX_3.4.11' not found (required by /usr/lib/paraview/libvtksys.so.pv3.4)

Paraview opens when I browse to the ThirdParty folder and I excute the paraview executable file. However paraFoam command does not work.

any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks

[thekay]

I believe you are missing a link from the ThridParty libstdc++ to where paraFoam looks for the files.

In another thread, piprus suggested this:

cd /home/USER_NAME/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty-1.6.x/gcc-4.3.3/platforms/linux64/lib64

sudo mv libstdc++.so.6 libstdc++.so.6.orig
sudo ln -s  /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.10 libstdc++.so.6

sudo mv libgcc_s.so.1 libgcc_s.so.1.orig
sudo ln -s /lib/libgcc_s.so.1

Modify accordingly and try the above.

Hope it helps.

[gascortado]

Thanks for your reply. I'll try that tonight and I will let you know if it helped

[gascortado]

Hi. I finally tried and it did fixed the problem However, I have another problem:
When I run paraFoam, para view ask me to specified the type of file. no matter what I select, paraview crashes and I get the following error:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::length_error' what(): basic_string::_S_create Aborted

I also noticed that at the top of the paraview vindow, it says "Kitware 3.4.0". Isn't it supposed to say 3.6.1 or something?

Any help will be greately appreciated!

Thanks

[thekay]

Should be 3.6.1 as you say. Are you sure you have downloaded and installed the latest version?

How was the previous problem fixed?

[anmartin]

I have had the same problem and after many trials and error finally i can install correctly OF in ubuntu 9.1.

1 download all archives, and follow instruction from readme file
2 edit bashrc (gedit $Home/.bashrc) and copy the test showed in instructions.
3 update variables
4 write "export LC_ALL=C" at the beginning of your paraFoam Startskript (which paraFoam) (http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...-paraview.html)

no more needed,