[Paraview] Problem installing prebuilt 64-bit Linux binaries

[Wayne Wu]

Hello,

Do we really need to create the symbolic links manually? I extracted
the binary package onto my Ubuntu 64-bit and can execute ParaView
directly from the bin/.

Thanks.

Best regards,
Wayne

On 5 April 2011 16:01, Mark Stock <mstock at umich.edu> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is my first message to the Paraview list, though I have been using the
> software for several years now.
>
> The latest 3.10 prebuilt 64-bit binary package contained no installation
> instructions (which is odd for a package of Paraview's size), plus it was
> missing some critical symlinks.
>
> So for the benefit of those who follow, here is how I got it to work
> (installing into /usr/local):
>
> % tar -xzf ParaView-3.10.0-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz
> % cd ParaView-3.10.0-Linux-x86_64/
> % sudo mv bin/* /usr/local/bin/
> % sudo mv lib/* /usr/local/lib64/
> % cd /usr/local/lib64/
> % sudo ln -s paraview-3.10 paraview
> % cd paraview
> % sudo ln -s paraview paraview-real
>
> Finally, is there any way to search the Paraview archives? I have a few
> other questions about changes in recent versions (like the default glyph for
> unstructured point sets, which was once an attractive circle, is now an
> awkward square).
>
> Mark
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