[Paraview] Paraview on Mac (Actually, on PPC ubuntu linux)

[Paul Wells]

Thanks to all the various hints and suggestions from the kind and 
knowledgeable members of this list I am very pleased to announce that I 
have finally got Paraview-2.0.2 running on my Mac!!

For reference:

Machine: Apple Mac (12" AlPB - PPC G4)

OS: Ubuntu linux 5.0.4 (Hoary Hedgehog - I have OS X Panther and ubuntu 
as dual boot so I have the best of both worlds.) - Ubuntu is a 
fantastic distro for those who haven't seen it. www.ubuntulinux.org You 
have to apt-get (or use synaptic) to install the build-essential files 
(gcc etc) and the various -dev packages with the development headers 
for X11 and the like (I can provide a complete list if needed). You 
have to activate the universe and multiverse repositories, but Synaptic 
makes this a simple tick in a check-box.

You can apt-get cmake from the debian repositories, but it builds 
easily from source, which is what I did.

Then I just followed the installation instructions for Paraview, with 
the one exception of running cmake interactively (cmake -i 
~/paraview-2.0.2), saying 'yes' to advanced options and changing the 
'build shared vtk libraries' option from 'OFF' to 'ON' then, make, 
(sudo) make install. Finally, (sudo) nano /etc/ld.so.conf to add the 
path /usr/local/paraview-2.0.2 to the list and (sudo) ldconfig to 
update the library search path.

If you don't want to (or can't) do the sudo install step then you don't 
need to worry about ld.so.conf or ldconfig, the executable finds the 
shared libraries in the build directory straight after the 'make' step 
(I tried)

I can now double-click the paraview executable in /usr/local/bin and it 
runs perfectly.

So, not exactly 'Paraview on OSX', but on PPC Mac at least, which is 
quite alright for me because the next step is to compile OpenFOAM, also 
on ubuntu...

Many thanks once again, especially to Kitware. I hope my small 
contribution here might be of use to others.


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Regards
Paul J Wells MA.(Cantab.) CEng. MRAeS.

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