[Paraview] Build Guide

[Ondrej Certik]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Moreland, Kenneth <kmorel at sandia.gov> wrote:
>
>> Please re-read this section of the wiki :
>>
>> http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView:Build_And_Install#Configure_ParaView_Wit
>> h_CMake
>>
>> Paraview must be "built out of source." That is you should untar the
>> source,
>> make a build directory, enter the build directory, then run cmake (or
>> better
>> yet ccmake)  with the path of the source directory.
>
> One more brief note on that: If you have already run cmake (or ccmake) from the source directory, make sure you delete the CMakeCache.txt from the source directory before attempting to run cmake or ccmake from the binary directory.  CMake has a funny habit of refusing to let you do an out-of-source build once you have created an in-source-build.  If you have trouble, just delete everything and untar the source again to start fresh.

Here is how to install paraview in ubuntu using the official ubuntu
package (which is the same as in Debian):

http://groups.google.com/group/sfepy-devel/browse_thread/thread/482d5b22b8736747

Ondrej