Installation/Linux/OpenFOAM-1.6-ext

Maintainer

The current maintainer of this page is Wyldckat (talk).

1 Introduction

This page aims to explain how to install the foam-extend project (this is a variant of OpenFOAM 1.6.x) on any Linux Distribution.

In the following chapters and sections is explained how to generally install OpenFOAM 1.6-ext and related dependencies, such as ParaView:

For dedicated instructions (complete and/or partial) for each Linux Distribution:

Installation/Linux/OpenFOAM-1.6-ext/CentOS SL RHEL Installation/Linux/OpenFOAM-1.6-ext/Debian Installation/Linux/OpenFOAM-1.6-ext/Ubuntu Installation/Linux/OpenFOAM-1.6-ext/openSUSE

2 Installing from source code

The official instructions are made available here:

• Building Instructions at the official Extend repository
• Building Instructions at repo.or.cz mirror
• Building Instructions at Unofficial-Extend-Project-Mirror@github mirror

2.1 Note regarding foam-extend-3.0

Keep in mind that after since foam-extend-3.0 has been released, one should checkout the branch 1.6.1 after running git clone; for example:

git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/openfoam-extend/OpenFOAM-1.6-ext
cd OpenFOAM-1.6-ext
git checkout 1.6.1 -b 16ext

Then continuing following the instructions meant for the old 1.6-ext version.