HowTo: Scientific Ubuntu - Installing OpenFOAM CFD software

**gbrubal** · March 9th, 2010

Hi, i have been trying, for the past couple of days, to install openfoam in ubuntu 9.10 64-bit. Now i am very new to the whole linux and openfoam thing, so bare with me. After reading the initial post i decided to erase everything i had and start again from scratch. So far so good, i managed to extract the files without issues, but i can't source the bashrc.

I put this in my bashrc, i don't know if it has to be in any particular line, i put it in the line right before the last one. Now when i type:

~ /.bashrc, i get this message:

bash: /home/gustavo/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-1.6/.OpenFOAM-1.6/bashrc: No such file or directory

What i don't get is why its looking for it in OpenFOAM-1.6/OpenFOAM-1.6

It doesnt make sense to me, can anyone help me out?

Thanks in advance!

**gbrubal** · March 10th, 2010

i have solved the problem. I had, mistakenly, modified the bashrc in the openfoam-1.6/etc folder. and when i sourced the $HOME/.bashrc, apparently that created the conflict.

Now, i fixed both files and it worked no problem.

However, i do have a situation with paraview, its not working, apparently i have to update the qt4. Should i do that with the synaptiic package manager? If, yes, which libqt4 should i get? Theres like a ton of versions, my guess is -sql and -dev.

Thanks again!

**Canesin** · April 20th, 2010

You could also just use the automatic installer script for ubuntu...
It is a opensource project and can be found in: http://code.google.com/p/openfoam-ubuntu

It fix several problems and also do multi-core build

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