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#                            -*- mode: org; -*-
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#+TITLE:              OpenFOAM-dev Third-Party packages
#+AUTHOR:                  The OpenFOAM Foundation
#+DATE:                        14th July 2026
#+LINK:                    https://www.openfoam.org
#+OPTIONS: author:nil ^:{}
# Copyright (c) 2014-2026 OpenFOAM Foundation.

* Description
  OpenFOAM uses some additional software for visualisation (ParaView), parallelisation
  (OpenMPI) and decomposition (options including Scotch/PtScotch, Zoltan, METIS/ParMETIS).
  By default, OpenFOAM is configured to use standard system installations of these packages,
  except for some packages (Scotch and Zoltan) whose source code is provided and automatically
  compiled, as described here: https://openfoam.org/download/source/third-party-software

  Users can optionally compile software packages rather than install system versions.  To do so,
  they need to download the source code of the relevant package(s) before running installation
  script(s).
* Downloading additional software
  Links to the source code of recommended versions of additional packages are listed below.  Any
  package selected should be downloaded and unpacked in the third-party directory (~ThirdParty-dev~).
*** Scotch/PtScotch
    + https://gitlab.inria.fr/scotch/scotch/-/archive/v7.0.8/scotch-v7.0.12.tar.bz2
    + This package is already present in the third-party directory.
*** Zoltan
    + https://github.com/sandialabs/Zoltan/archive/refs/tags/v3.90.tar.gz
    + This package is already present in the third-party directory.
*** METIS/ParMETIS
    + METIS is software used for decomposition, released under a permissive open source licence,
      which itself runs in serial.
    + ParMETIS is the equivalent software which runs in parallel, which is released under the
      following licence: https://github.com/KarypisLab/ParMETIS/blob/main/LICENSE
    + METIS: http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/fetch/sw/metis/metis-5.1.0.tar.gz
    + ParMETIS: http://glaros.dtc.umn.edu/gkhome/fetch/sw/parmetis/parmetis-4.0.3.tar.gz
*** OpenMPI
    + https://www.open-mpi.org/software/ompi/v2.1/downloads/openmpi-2.1.1.tar.bz2
*** ParaView
    + https://www.paraview.org/files/v6.1/ParaView-v6.1.1.tar.gz
    + This package is automatically downloaded by its installation script.

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