[Paraview] Installing Paraview on Ubuntu 10.10

[Sohail Shafii]

Did you unpack it into the "/opt" folder as specified below? If you type in "paraview" into the command prompt, then it will search folders defined by a $PATH environment variable to run the program/command.  This includes the default locations for most programs, and the command apt-get install places programs in those locations.  But the "opt" folder is most likely not part of your path by default as it is part of a custom installation. You can find out what your $PATH variable is by typing "echo $PATH" in the command prompt. Please see: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EnvironmentVariables.
Wayne suggested that you install the downloaded binary into a separate (i.e. custom) folder that is probably not part of your path -- i.e. in the folder "/opt."  So to run it you have type in the command "/opt/ParaView-3.10.0-Linux-x86_64/bin/paraview," not "paraview."
But if you want to launch the downloaded binary without having to typing the "/opt/Parav*" stuff before it, you would have to add the custom folder to your path.  Go to your home directory, open the ".bashrc" file (using vim, gedit, or whatever editor you like), then at the bottom you can type in the following:
export PATH=/opt/ParaView-3.10.0-Linux-x64_64/bin/:$PATH
This will add the custom directory to your path variable. Also, you can remove the older version of paraview (installed via apt-get) that you installed by going into "Synaptic Packet Manager," searching for Paraview, and un-installing it there. 


--- On Sun, 4/17/11, Aston Martin <a_martin3000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Aston Martin <a_martin3000 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Paraview] Installing Paraview on Ubuntu 10.10
To: "Wayne Wu" <salad00 at gmail.com>
Cc: "paraview at paraview.org" <paraview at paraview.org>
Date: Sunday, April 17, 2011, 10:22 AM

I have tried this already and got this message

The program 'paraview' is currently not installed.  You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install paraview

and if you do this you get the old version

Mohammed

--- On Sat, 4/16/11, Wayne Wu <salad00 at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Wayne Wu <salad00 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Paraview] Installing Paraview on Ubuntu 10.10
To: "Aston Martin" <a_martin3000 at yahoo.com>
Cc: "paraview at paraview.org" <paraview at paraview.org>
Date: Saturday, April 16, 2011, 1:44 PM

Hi Aston,

OK. Use command to extract the package into where you want to put ParaView in, for example /opt/ as follows

tar xzvf
 ParaView-3.10.1-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz -C /opt/

Then you can execute /opt/ParaView-3.10.0-Linux-x86_64/bin/paraview to launch ParaView. For convenience, you can also put a symbolic link of this paraview to wherever you would like to.


Good luck :)

Best regards,
Wayne

On 16 April 2011 20:12, Aston Martin <a_martin3000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

thanks Wayne
this is exactly what I did

but it installed an older version (3.8.2)

I'm asking how to install it from the downloaded binary without using apt-get

thanks,
Aston

--- On Sat, 4/16/11, Wayne Wu <salad00 at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Wayne Wu <salad00 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Paraview] Installing Paraview on Ubuntu 10.10

To: "Aston Martin" <a_martin3000 at yahoo.com>
Cc: "paraview at paraview.org" <paraview at paraview.org>

Date: Saturday, April 16, 2011, 11:47 AM

Hello Aston,

Download the latest package and unpack to anywhere you want, then it is okay to use.

Although this is an old post, http://code-saturne.blogspot.com/2009/07/installation-of-paraview-361-on-ubuntu.html, hope it helps.



Good luck :)

Best regards,
http://code-saturne.blogspot.com/

On 16 April 2011 18:09, Aston Martin <a_martin3000 at yahoo.com> wrote:


Hi All,

I quite new to Linux and I'm trying to install Paraview 3.10.1 on Ubuntu 10.10



when I use
sudo apt-get install paraview

the old version (3.8.2) on the Ubuntu repository is installed

thanks for your help,
Aston 

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