[Paraview] Building Paraview 5.4.1 in Ubuntu 16.04

Dan Lipsa dan.lipsa at kitware.com
Wed Sep 6 14:56:27 EDT 2017


Joel,
You can install Qt 5.6 from the web and make sure you you set
Qt5_DIR=/opt/Qt/5.6/gcc_64/lib/cmake/Qt5
(the dir containing Qt5Config.cmake)
when you build ParaView

HTH,
Dan



On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 12:15 PM, Joel Manning <
joel.manning at prevailinganalysis.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
>
> I am attempting to build Paraview 5.4.1 from source using
> VTK_PYTHON_VERSION = 3 with the aim of making use of paraview automation
> using python 3.  However I am running into trouble because the qt version
> does not meet the minimum of version 5.6.  Also the Qt5_DIR is not found.
>
>
>
> I am attempting the build using Cmake 3.5.1 on Ubuntu 16.04.
>
> Ubuntu 16.04 is supplied with qt5.5.1 but I cannot update this.
>
>
>
> Please can you provide me with some advice and preferably step-by-step
> instructions on how to complete this build.
>
>
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Joel
>
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