[Paraview] pvserver cannot find shared library

[Berk Geveci]

Hi Huan,

Note: By installing, I am guessing you mean that you compiled and
installed ParaView. The binaries we distribute do not have MPI
support.

Which version of ParaView did you compile and how did you install it?
It sounds like the search path ParaView uses for finding shared
libraries is not setup properly. There are two reasons (that I can
think of) why this may happen:

1. Modified installation of ParaView
2. ParaView is configured/compiled with VTK_USE_RPATH set to OFF. This
happens when using a development version of ParaView by default (i.e.
checkout of trunk from cvs) or if you explicitly turn off
VTK_USE_RPATH

Best,
-berk

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 1:59 AM, Huan Sun <hsun at math.psu.edu> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I installed paraview with open mpi following the instructions on
> paraview.org/wiki.
>
> But when I ran
>
> mpirun -np 12 ./pvserver
>
> the pvserver complained it didn't find shared library
> libvtkPVServerCommon.so. I checked the lib/ in the installation direction
> and found the library.  I am just wondering what can goes wrong.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Huan
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