Running FLUENT 6.2 on SuSE 10.1.

http://en.opensuse.org/Running_FLUENT_6.2_on_SuSE_10.1.

Introduction

FLUENT 6.2 uses an sh script to be launched. The script has been written for bash 3.0 and is not working anymore with bash 3.1, provided by SuSE 10.1. The proble

Wainting for an official solution by FLUENT, it is possible to use FLUENT on SuSE 10.1 by installing a local copy of bash 3.0.

What do I need?

You have to download the sources of bash 3.0 from their ftp site.

How to install bash 3.0

I'd suggest to install bash locally in your home, if you're a single user of FLUENT on your machine, or in an /opt subdirectory if you're working on a multi-user system. I'll consider the single user case in this how-to, but the multi-user procedure is almost the same. You just need to change the install directory.

The installation procedure is the following:

• Create the destination directory. I'll refer to /home/alberto/bin/bash3/ in the tutorial.

• Extract the bash 3.0 tar.gz archive using file roller or ark. If you prefer the command line, just type tar xzf bash-3.0.tar.gz in a terminal opened in the same directory which contains the tar.gz archive.

• Move into the directory containing the extracted files.

• Run these command in sequence:

./configure -prefix=/home/alberto/bin/bash3/
make
make install

Bash 3.0 is now installed.

Making FLUENT use bash 3.0

You need to change the sh script Fluent.Inc/bin/fluent in order to use bash 3.0 and not the version of bash used by default in your SuSE 10.1 installation. Open this file and change the first line from:

#!/bin/sh

to

#!/home/alberto/bin/bash3/bin/bash

Conclusion

Now FLUENT 6.2 should work with the usual command. Try it by typing for example:

fluent 2ddp

in a terminal.