
The user will need to provide superuser password authentication when executing the following commands with sudo

OpenFOAM and Paraview can be simply installed using the apt package management tool. OpenFOAM will be upgraded from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1 also if the user does a complete upgrade of all software packages: sudo apt-get update Sudo apt-get install -only-upgrade openfoam30 Users with an existing installation of OpenFOAM 3.0.0 on their Ubuntu system can upgrade OpenFOAM only by typing in a terminal window: sudo apt-get update

OpenFOAM 3.0.1 is a patch release of OpenFOAM 3.0.0, which can be upgraded for the Ubuntu pack openfoam30. However, foamyHexMesh is available in the pack for Ubuntu 15.10 which provides CGAL v4.6.1. Note: foamyHexMesh is not available in the pack for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, since that version of Ubuntu provides a packaged version of CGAL (v4.2) which is no longer supported.

Note: only version 14.04LTS is still current (see Ubuntu Releases) and supports installation of the OpenFOAM package with apt using the instructions below. OpenFOAM and Paraview are currently available for the following versions of Ubuntu.
