Re: Installation of OpenFoam
Hi John After a lot of fooling around, I finally settled on Salome. It was easy to install if you ignore all of the junk in the README file. It took a .step file from FreeCAD and turned out a 3D hexahedral .unv file with little trouble. The mesh may not be very optimized but I don't care. I am feeding the file into a Deal.II program that has extensive mesh optimization capabilities. Thanks again for your help. Gary R. On 12/2/19 4:36 PM, John Hasler wrote: OpenFOAM is not a monolithic GUI program. It is a library and a set of applications built on it. See http://openfoam.org, which is mentioned in the package description. Ignore everything they say about installing it, though. You have installed it. You certainly don't need Docker. You should be able to run applications from the command line. Look in /usr/share/doc/openfoam-examples. The documentation is abysmal. You have to puzzle it out from clues on the Web site. There is a tutorial somewhere: perhaps you can find it. The version of OpenFOAM in Sid (which I use) is broken.
Re: Installation of OpenFoam
OpenFOAM is not a monolithic GUI program. It is a library and a set of applications built on it. See http://openfoam.org, which is mentioned in the package description. Ignore everything they say about installing it, though. You have installed it. You certainly don't need Docker. You should be able to run applications from the command line. Look in /usr/share/doc/openfoam-examples. The documentation is abysmal. You have to puzzle it out from clues on the Web site. There is a tutorial somewhere: perhaps you can find it. The version of OpenFOAM in Sid (which I use) is broken. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA
Installation of OpenFoam
Hi all, I have been trying to install openfoam on my debian buster system (KDE desktop) and am having fits. Debian has a .deb version that should work out of the box but doesn't. I installed the openfoam .deb in the normal way. There is no icon installed and running openfoam on the command line produces a "No such file or directory" error. I have looked through the openfoam web site and all recent related web sites. The sites fall into two catagories. Either hopelessly out of date or contain half a page of tweeks that need to be done. The tweeks don't seem to work. Some go off into the weeds with Docker which I am not sure I really need on a KDE system, If anyone has experience with installing this package please help!!! Gary R.
