I have installed the OpenFOAM package via

sudo apt install openfoam

on Ubuntu, inside the Windows WSL environment. But I have no idea what version/variant of the FLOSS is installed. I tried the

blockMesh -help

hoping it would give me some information about what I am dealing with but I got the error message:

--> FOAM FATAL ERROR :
      Could not find mandatory etc entry (mode=ugo)
       'controlDict'

CodePudding user response：

Using the Ubuntu command

apt-cache show openfoam

I understood that I had installed the 1906.191111 dfsg1-2build1 version and the openfoam.com variant. But this is a Ubuntu-specific solution, not a general OpenFOAM solution that works on other operating systems.

CodePudding user response：

You can run the script foamVersion in the shell:

foamVersion

OpenFOAM-v2112 # this is the output in my case