install VI Suite on Debian / Ubuntu

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Sergio Bini

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Dec 15, 2025, 5:59:59 AM12/15/25

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Hi Ryan,

i would like to share how to install VI Suite in almost all linux ubuntu/debian distribution. Maybe it’s useful for those who want to use linux to play simulations with the VI Suite and struggle to use Arch. In most popular distro, like Mint, Zorin, etc.

Open a terminal, and type :

sudo apt-update

sudo apt-get install blender

sudo apt-get install python3-matplotlib

sudo apt-get install calculix-ccx calculix-cgx

We’ll not use the blender version installed before, unless this version is a 4.4 or 4.5 LTS, instead, navigate to the Blender Site www.blender.org and download the current Blender 4.5 LTS. And extract wherever you want.

Then navigate to the OpenFoam Site www.openfoam.com and follow the instructions to install openfoam for ubuntu/debian.

Note that the foamExec file will be placed into /usr/lib/openfoam/openfoam2412/bin/tools, so you have to specify this path when you set OpenFoam path in ViSuite.

Launch Blender 4.5 LTS and install VISuite 0.7 as usual (i think beta8 is the last version). Set the correct path to Openfoam binary as said before.

I did not installed the acoustic simulation.

I hope this can be useful,

regards.

VI-Suite

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Dec 15, 2025, 11:49:05 AM12/15/25

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Thanks Sergio.

Just bear in mind that it is the OpenFOAM from openfoam.org (version 11 or 12), not openfoam.com, that works with the VI-Suite. The syntax between the two differs slightly and certain boundary conditions written by VI-Suite are not understood by the openfoam.com version.
Cheers