[Paraview] New Mac Installation

[Mike Jackson]

On Jan 24, 2006, at 10:58 PM, Joe Koski wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm a Sandia retiree and consultant. I was just given the website by a
> Sandia staff member about an hour ago, and I'm trying to install  
> paraview on
> my Mac G5 with OS X 10.3.9 and Xcode 1.5. The code we use  
> recognizes .vtk
> files, so we thought we'd give it a try.
>
> I think I have extracted paraview correctly, which took some  
> understanding
> of the .tar file structure. A suggestion would be to set up  
> the .tar to
> extract directly with a "tar -xvf paraview.tar -C /usr/local"  
> instead of
> having the intermediate directory that you have now. I had to make  
> my own
> tar of the four directories (bin, lib, doc, share) before it would  
> extract
> correctly into /usr/local.
>
> Now, when I launch paraview I get
>
> jakoski$ paraview
> ParaView error: InitializeTcl failed
> Tk_Init error: this isn't a Tk application couldn't connect to display
> ":0.0"
>
> OK, I think I have an older version of Tk/Tcl already installed. Do  
> I need
> another version, or do I just need a new line in my .bash_profile or
> .bashrc? I suspect that I have a missing dependency.
>
> Thanks for any ideas.
>
> Joe Koski

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Are you launching paraview from an "x-term"? Paraview (Last time I  
checked) only runs under X-Windows on OS X. Kitware doesn't seem to  
want to support the newer versions of Tk/Tcl that run under Aqua.

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Mike Jackson
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