[Paraview] python error when importing paraview.simple with paraview 5.0

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Try setting your LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the ".../lib/paraview-5.0"
directory.

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 5:53 AM, sean read <read.sean62 at gmail.com> wrote:
> So I've downloaded paraview5.0 from the website
> http://www.paraview.org/download/nload/, and set my python path as
>
> :/home/sean/bin/ParaView-5.0.1-Qt4-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit/lib/paraview-5.0:/home/sean/bin/ParaView-5.0.1-Qt4-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit/lib/paraview-5.0/site-packages/vtk:/home/sean/bin/ParaView-5.0.1-Qt4-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit/bin:/home/sean/bin/ParaView-5.0.1-Qt4-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit/lib/paraview-5.0/site-packages
>
> When I import paraview.simple in python I get the error message
>
> ImportError: libvtkCommonCorePython27D-pv5.0.so.1: cannot open shared object
> file: No such file or directory
>
> but libvtkCommonCorePython27D-pv5.0.so.1 is in
> /home/sean/bin/ParaView-5.0.1-Qt4-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit/lib/paraview-5.0,
> which is in my python path.
>
> PV python is functioning as normal
>
> I am running linux mint 17.3
>
> Any suggestions?
> --
> Sean Read
> Level 1 Yantra Yoga Instructor
>
>
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