Wednesday, 1 September 2010

OpenFOAM 1.7.1 is released

It is nice to read the piece of news that OpenCFD just released OpenFOAM version 1.7.1. The version optimises correctly using gcc-4.5.0 and has been verified to run on OpenSuSE-11.3.

Another good aspect is the debian packages prepared for this version, created for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. Briefly, to install OpenFOAM in Ubuntu, execute the commands

# add the openfoam source into the source list
:/$ sudo echo "deb http://www.openfoam.com/download/ubuntu lucid main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
# refresh the package list
:/$ sudo apt-get update
# Install OpenFOAM
:/$ sudo apt-get install openfoam171
# Install Paraview
:/$ sudo apt-get install paraviewopenfoam380

Please refer to this page for more information on the installation onto Ubuntu.
Posted by salad at 21:02
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4 comments:

  1. zeliboba11 September 2010 at 09:16

    ha! there is no binary package for other distributions, compile from source or use ubuntu - great choice! opencfd does not search for easy ways to distribute their software.

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  2. salad11 September 2010 at 22:32

    Yes, it is a good reason for OpenFOAM engineers/users to turn to Ubuntu.

    Best regards,

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  3. zeliboba25 September 2010 at 16:22

    how many cluster with the latest version of ubuntu did you see?

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  4. salad3 October 2010 at 00:09

    Hi zeliboba,

    I use Ubuntu on my personal computer. I am not sure if I correctly understand and reply your question :(

    Best regards,

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