I have recently installed OpenFOAM 1.5.x following the procedure I explained in this post some time ago. With OpenSUSE 11.1, paraview and paraFOAM work properly after being recompiled following these simple instructions: Install OpenSUSE 11.1, which can be downloaded from here. Install qt4-devel: as root, type zypper in libqt4-devel Download OpenFOAM 1.5 from git repository (See here) Download the third-party packages from OpenCFD site Source the bash configuration file for OpenFOAM, as usual. Edit ~/OpenFOAM/ThirdParty/ParaView3.3-cvs/CMakeLists.txt and comment out the line: MESSAGE(SEND_ERROR “Qt ${QTVERSION} not supported. Please use Qt 4.3 (you may need to clean your dirtied cache).”) Compile paraview and its reader following the instructions provided in OpenFOAM 1.5.x README…