<div dir="auto">Dear Anton,<div dir="auto">I agree with you I still have the opportunity to remove Debian openfoam pkg. I can not agree with you with your statement about paraFoam being a paraview fork, please see the description at cfddirect: <a href="https://cfd.direct/openfoam/user-guide/paraview/">https://cfd.direct/openfoam/user-guide/paraview/</a></div><div dir="auto"><h3 style="border:0px;line-height:28px;font-family:lato,sans-serif;font-size:22px;font-weight:normal;margin:5px 0px 0px;outline:0px;padding:5px 0px 0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="border:0px;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">6.1.1 </span><a style="border:0px;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(128,0,128)"></a>Overview of <span style="border:0px;font-variant:inherit;line-height:18px;font-family:"courier 10 pitch",courier,monospace;font-style:italic;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">ParaView</span>/<span style="border:0px;font-variant:inherit;line-height:18px;font-family:"courier 10 pitch",courier,monospace;font-style:italic;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">paraFoam</span></h3><h3 style="border:0px;line-height:28px;font-family:lato,sans-serif;font-size:22px;font-weight:normal;margin:5px 0px 0px;outline:0px;padding:5px 0px 0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><p style="border:0px;line-height:24px;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 15px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102)"><span style="border:0px;font-variant:inherit;line-height:18px;font-family:'courier 10 pitch','courier',monospace;font-size:14px;font-style:italic;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">paraFoam </span>is a script that launches <span style="border:0px;font-variant:inherit;line-height:18px;font-family:'courier 10 pitch','courier',monospace;font-size:14px;font-style:italic;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">ParaView </span>using the reader module supplied with OpenFOAM. It is executed like any of the OpenFOAM utilities either by the single command from within the case directory or with the <span style="border:0px;font-variant:inherit;line-height:18px;font-family:'courier 10 pitch','courier',monospace;font-size:14px;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">-case </span>option with the case path as an argument, <span style="border:0px;font-variant:inherit;line-height:18px;font-family:'courier 10 pitch','courier',monospace;font-size:14px;font-style:italic;font-weight:inherit;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre">e.g. </span>:....omissis</p></h3></div>Using foamToVTK is more time consuming than paraFoam and has not all' the potentiality offered by paraFoam readers.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Gianluca<br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">Il Lun 28 Mag 2018, 18:37 Anton Gladky <<a href="mailto:gladk@debian.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">gladk@debian.org</a>> ha scritto:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Gianluca,<br>
<br>
paraFoam is the modified version of ParaView. We in Debian<br>
try not to package the forks if there are no real needs in it.<br>
You can  try to use the pure paraView to view the mesh. If it<br>
is not enough, you have always an option to remove the packaged<br>
openfoam.<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
<br>
Anton<br>
<br>
<br>
2018-05-28 15:22 GMT+02:00 Gianluca Rocchi <<a href="mailto:rocchigian@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">rocchigian@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
> Hi,<br>
> I installed openfoam-4.1+dfsg1-1 succesfully  and paraview-5.1.2+dfsg1-2 on<br>
> my Debian Stretch laptop.<br>
> I realised only recently that opeenfoam was inserted in debian stable. Up to<br>
> now I had openfoam running compiling it (and paraview) from sources.<br>
><br>
> Now I'm not able to find the paraFoam command which is normally used to read<br>
> OpenFOAM files and is very useful for mesh checking by means of the '-block'<br>
> commandline option switch.<br>
> Why it is not compiled in the package?<br>
> How can I do to have paraFoam up and running again?<br>
><br>
> Thank You<br>
><br>
> Gianluca<br>
><br>
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