Just download the OMPI tarball from the OMPI site: http://www.open-mpi.org/software/ompi/v1.6/
Then configure and build ./configure --prefix=<wherever-you-want-to-install> make clean all install Set your PATH to start with <prefix>/bin, and your LD_LIBRARY_PATH to start with <prefix>/lib and you are done with the OMPI part - you'll have to check the OpenFoam folks for their side On Aug 30, 2013, at 9:24 AM, John Hearns <hear...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I agree what Ralph says. > > I have a lot of experience in running SLES 10 and 11 systems and many > flavours of Opensuse. > > I am not sure if rpms for Openmpi are available for Sles - I will check. > > Installing Openfoam is a pig I agree. > > You could be better off with Opensuse from a point of view of Openmpi and gcc > versions. > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users