# ParaView OpenFOAM not working

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-openfoam-not-working/14718
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [May 26, 2024, 7:29am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-openfoam-not-working/14718 "2024-05-26T07:29:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![Vahid](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/vahid/32/14311_2.png) [@Vahid](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Vahid)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2024, 7:29am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-openfoam-not-working/14718/1 "2024-05-26T07:29:02Z")

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Hi Mathieu

I installed OpenFoam version 10, but I had already installed Paraview, now it gives this error when opening files related to OpenFoam.

 ![aaa](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/c/c069fe2bb0d0be11009f2b08b7c5037c206bc2b1.jpeg)

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [May 27, 2024, 7:31am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-openfoam-not-working/14718/2 "2024-05-27T07:31:09Z")

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Please use the paraview binary release instead: [https://paraview.org/download](https://paraview.org/download)