Ansys 13 on Ubuntu 10.10 64bit

I have an Ansys workbench script that:

  • generates geometry
  • performs meshing
  • runs fluent (CFD)

To get this to work on Ubuntu (not an officially supported distro) I had to:

  • Manually enter the glibc version instead of the rpm command used in the script /usr/local/ansys_inc/v130/aisol/mw/setup-mwuser (just search for rpm).  This fixes: /usr/local/ansys_inc/v130/aisol/mw/setup-mwuser: 149: rpm: not found
  • However, this still leaves the following error: ServiceMain failed with 1702 (000006a6) The binding handle is invalid.
  • This is solved by editing /etc/hosts and commenting out the following two lines (lines 3 and 4 in my file):

::1 UOS-200630 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6

127.0.1.1 uos-200630

  • This then leaves the following errors related to the proprietary nvidia driver

Unable to resolve function glXQueryExtension

Unable to resolve function glXMakeCurrent

  • This is fixed by adding /ansys_inc/v130/Framework/bin/Mesa to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and running runwb2 with the -oglmesa commandline argument
Hope this is useful for somebody.
–Dirk

3 thoughts on “Ansys 13 on Ubuntu 10.10 64bit

  1. Hooray, this helps!
    >> This is fixed by adding /ansys_inc/v130/Framework/bin/Mesa
    >> to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH

    -oglmesa is not necessary here
    >> and running runwb2 with the -oglmesa commandline argument

    Thank you and Google :)

  2. Hello Dirk. I want to thank you so much for posting this highly valuable information as I was having those nasty glx issues; designmodeler and mesh were simply not working. In my case the exported path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH was a little bit different and I’ll post it just in case somebody else is using a 64-bit linux distro; in my case I needed to invoke wb via a compiled old version of uname because 3 kernel series are officially unsuported:

    $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/ansys_inc/v130/Framework/bin/Linux64/Mesa;uname26 /ansys_inc/v130/Framework/bin/Linux64/runwb2

    Now ANSYS is working at its full capacity in Debian 7 64-bit and I sincerely appreciate your help.

    Thanks a million, Miguel Q.

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