The installations instructions for OpenFOAM 1.7.0 on openSUSE 11.3 are almost identical to those for openSUSE 11.2 reported here. However, one additional package is necessary. For the reader’s convenience, I report the whole procedure, highlighting in orange the differences with the installation on openSUSE 11.2. The steps of the procedure are the following: Use YaST to install the C/C++ development pattern in YaST cmake libqt4-devel (required to build paraview) libQtWebKit-devel (required to build paraview) flex Create a directory called OpenFOAM in your home directory mkdir ~/OpenFOAM Enter the OpenFOAM directory cd ~/OpenFOAM Download both the OpenFOAM and ThirdParty packages from here and save them in your ~/OpenFOAM directory Extract the OpenFOAM-1.7.0.gtgz…

Installing OpenFOAM® 1.7 on openSUSE 11.2 is very similar to installing OpenFOAM 1.6.x, however some differences deserve to be noticed. The steps of the procedure are the following: Use YaST to install the C/C++ development pattern in YaST cmake libqt4-devel (required to build paraview) flex Create a directory called OpenFOAM in your home directory mkdir ~/OpenFOAM Enter the OpenFOAM directory cd ~/OpenFOAM Download both the OpenFOAM and ThirdParty packages from here and save them in your ~/OpenFOAM directory Extract the OpenFOAM-1.7.0.gtgz package with the command: tar xzf OpenFOAM-1.7.0.gtgz Extract the ThirdParty-1.7.0.gtgz package with the command: tar xzf ThirdParty-1.7.0.gtgz Open your ~/.bashrc file in a text editor and add the line: .…

OpenCFD® released OpenFOAM® 1.7, which consolidates the features of the git version OpenFOAM 1.6.x in the new release, under the GNU GPL 3 license. A summary of the new features can be found here, while more details are available in the release notes of the code. The new version can be downloaded from the web-page at this link. Differently from the previous releases, OpenFOAM 1.7 is distributed in binary form only for Debian/Ubuntu systems, while for other Linux distributions only the source code is available. No pre-compiled, platform-independent binary package is made available. As usual, however, the code has been tested on the latest stable releases of openSUSE and Ubuntu,…