Linking issues with OpenFOAM adapter

Official adapters and tutorials
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I am running the “Quickstart” tutorial but got stuck on step 4 “install OpenFOAM adapter”.
My system is a Ubuntu 20.04, and I downloaded that version during step 1.

During installation of the adapter it somehow seems to me, the version of Boost is hardwired to v1.83.
The version installed during earlier steps (via apt-get install libboost-dev-all) was 1.71.
In ldd.log, the linking to libboost_* pointed to *.so.1.83.0 which was of course not found.
After manually installing the exact version, I ran into the next linking problem with libpetsc_real.so.3.19 and also undefined symbols to GLIBC_2.32, GLIBC_2.34 and GLIBC_2.38

I am not sure if it is a adapter problem or more general issue.

Before tinkering with version fixes any further, I wanted to reach out and check if there is another suggested way?

Side question: is it normal that “apt install openfoam2406-dev” takes hours to carry out?

2

I tried it on another machine and the tutorial works like charm. Seems like the first machine is corrupted somehow.

3

This typically means that the Debian package installed was not the right one for that Linux distribution version.

Pay attention to the table matching OS to package (Quickstart | preCICE - The Coupling Library).