# libhdf5.so.103 not found when sourced openfoam (. ~/OpenFOAM-v2412/etc/bashrc)
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/libhdf5-so-103-not-found-when-sourced-openfoam-openfoam-v2412-etc-bashrc/16428
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [April 4, 2025, 10:33am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/libhdf5-so-103-not-found-when-sourced-openfoam-openfoam-v2412-etc-bashrc/16428 "2025-04-04T10:33:22Z")
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### Author:  [@muezabdalla](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/muezabdalla)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2025, 10:33am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/libhdf5-so-103-not-found-when-sourced-openfoam-openfoam-v2412-etc-bashrc/16428/1 "2025-04-04T10:33:22Z")
after sourcing openfoam (. ~/OpenFOAM-v2412/etc/bashrc) then trying to open paraview I get this error
~/ParaView-5.13.3-MPI-Linux-Python3.10-x86\_64/bin/paraview-real:error while loading shared libraries: libhdf5.so.103: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
but if I opened a new shell and open paraview without sourcing openfoam it works normally
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2025, 11:13am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/libhdf5-so-103-not-found-when-sourced-openfoam-openfoam-v2412-etc-bashrc/16428/2 "2025-04-04T11:13:36Z")
> [@muezabdalla](#):
>
> after sourcing openfoam
Then thats a openfoam issue, not a ParaView issue. You may want to avoid modifying your environnements variables.
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### Author:  [@Jnsn](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Jnsn)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2025, 1:51pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/libhdf5-so-103-not-found-when-sourced-openfoam-openfoam-v2412-etc-bashrc/16428/3 "2025-05-22T13:51:28Z")
Sourcing OpenFOAM changes LD\_LIBRARY\_PATH which conflicts with ParaView. So you can either run paraveiw in a different shell or you can run paraview in a cleaned environment with
```auto
env -u LD_LIBRARY_PATH Path/to/ParaView/Installation/bin/paraview
```