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Maria Okounkova edited this page Jul 18, 2022 · 1 revision

Paraview Installation

On ubuntu, 'sudo apt-get install paraview' should work. Package managers on other platforms should similarly be able to install paraview.

If you need to install paraview manually for some reason, see the instructions below.

ParaView 3 Manual Installation (use this if your package manager doesn't work)

Download the binary of Paraview 3.x.y, where x and y are integer version numbers. Verify with

tar -tzvf paraview-3.x.y-Linux-x86.tar.gz

that the downloaded archive untars into the subdirectory paraview-3.x.y-Linux-x86. Then

cd /usr/local
tar -xzvf paraview-3.x.y-Linux-x86.tar.gz

The executable is in paraview-3.x.y-Linux-x86/bin/paraview. A symbolic link to another directory does not work because the execuble has relative paths built in, so best add this directory to your PATH.

NOTE: Harald found the binary to be prone to segfaults under Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn). The self compiled binary behaved much better. To compile ParaView, install the packages 'cmake', 'libqt4-core', 'libqt4-gui', 'libqt4-dev' and 'python-dev' with synaptic-package manager. Checkout the source code with these two commands:

 cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@www.paraview.org:/cvsroot/ParaView3 login
        (respond with empty password)
 cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@www.paraview.org:/cvsroot/ParaView3 co -r ParaView-3-0 ParaView3

Then follow the build instructions.

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