Hi Maria, and thanks for your reply.
Actually I was able to solve the problem in a slightly different way, i. e. by modifying the Allmake.stage4 file in order to compile Paraview 3.8.1 instead of 3.10.1. The compilation of the 3.8.1 version came to a successful end and now I have OF-1.6-ext+Paraview-3.8.1 working properly together!

Best

V.

Hi Maria

Thanks for that input. I was having problem with getting 3.10.1 to work with 1.6-ext as that was not the default. The best way to do this is also would be to get the official pre-built compilation of whichever version of paraview you want and then follow the instructions given in the link...
www.cfd-online.com/Forums/blogs/wyldckat...fixes-solutions.html
There is a link for how to use either the 3.8 or 3.10 version depending on user preference.

Some additional tips i found while installing were...
at the end if you do a foamInstallationTest and it gives 1 critical error for the gcc version and path, you can fix that by doing
export WM_64=on
before you source the openfoam bashrc. do this by opening a new terminal and then trying it.

Hi,

can the same procedure work on Ubuntu 11.10? Did you try it already?

Thank you,
Attila

This was Just so helpful, big thankyou to Nebojsa Gavrilov for this post, I have a ubuntu 12.04 LTS and I based my installation on this. As a total beginner I am just so thankful, now I can finnally solve my buoyantBoussinesqPisoFoam porblem.

Thankyou again,

If any fellow beginners would like, I can post my modified method for ubuntu 12.04 LTS but you should beable to just follow this method...

Kiyo

Hi Kiyo,

I tried to install OpenFOAM®® on ubuntu 12.04 LTS several times using the procedure described by Nebojsa Gavrilov, but always there is a critical problem. Please, can you post your modified method to install OpenFOAM®® on ubuntu 12.04 LTS?

Thank you so much,
Magazoni

Hello Felipe

for some reason it seems my account dissapeared and it did not let me post, anyway i created a new one, I didn;t want to post it because its a mess, but I have recently successfully installed it from the tutorials in the files themselves.

I think this should be known by all newcomers, so if there is a way to bump this post please do ^^.

so as long as you can get the files from the git repository (i.e. git clone git://openfoam-extend.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/openfoam-extend/openfoam-extend OpenFOAM®-1.6-ext)

you are fine, then open the folder go to:

/doc/buildinstructions

then pick your OS (ubuntu for us, there is also centos and openSUSE, and follow the file for your installation, and your done! ( I have 64 bit laptop so i guessed that you may need an installation for a 32 bit one).

hope it helps

Kiyo