OpenFOAM®(v1906) installation in Ubuntu(v18.
04LTS)
1. Open the firefox or any installed web browser in Ubuntu® OS
2. Go to OpenFOAM installation page
(link: [Link]
3. Go to the preliminaries tab and click system requirements
(link: [Link]
4. Run the following commands (one by one) in the terminal window opened in home directory
of AWS Instance:
command 1:
sudo apt-get update
command 2:
sudo apt-get install build-essential flex bison cmake zlib1g-dev libboost-system-
dev libboost-thread-dev libopenmpi-dev openmpi-bin gnuplot libreadline-
dev libncurses-dev libxt-dev
command 3:
sudo apt-get install qt4-dev-tools libqt4-dev libqt4-opengl-dev freeglut3-
dev libqtwebkit-dev
5. Go back to home page (link: [Link]
and under the tab Build the code from source download the following files (link attached to
the file names as follows):
✓ [Link]
✓ [Link]
6. Extract the files to the $HOME/OpenFOAM directory by running the following command in
your Downloads directory (where the above files are downloaded by default):
command 1:
mkdir $HOME/OpenFOAM
command 2:
tar -xzf [Link] -C $HOME/OpenFOAM
command 3:
tar -xzf [Link] -C $HOME/OpenFOAM
7. In the home directory, go to files->view and check the Show Hidden Files option to view the
hidden files in the home/ubuntu directory:
8. In the home directory, open the file named .bashrc and copy the following command in it
(at the end of the file). Save the file and exit.
command:
source ~/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-v1906/etc/bashrc
9. In the home directory, go to following folder /ubuntu/openFOAM/ThirdParty-v-1906/ and
open the terminal in the said directory to run the following command:
command:
./Allwmake
Wait for the code compilation to complete.
[Link] the home directory, go to following folder /ubuntu/openFOAM/ThirdParty-v-1906/ and
open the terminal in the said directory to run the following command:
command:
./makeParaView
During code compilation of ParaView, some errors are bound to occur so resolve these
errors by following these instructions:
(link: [Link]
[Link])
[Link] the home directory, go to following folder /ubuntu/openFOAM/OpenFOAM-v-1906/ and
open the terminal in the said directory to run the following command:
command:
./Allwmake
Wait for the code compilation of OpenFOAM to complete. Once completed, you can test
the installation by running the cavity case in OpenFOAM