[Paraview] Permissions issue with ParaView-4.4.0-Qt4-Linux-64bit.tar.gz

[Eric Nodwell]

Oops, correction to that previous post. The actual fix (bit of a
sledgehammer) is

sudo chmod -R a+rx /opt/ParaView-4.4.0-Qt4-Linux-64bit/


On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Eric Nodwell
<eric.nodwell at numerics88.com> wrote:
> After unpacking ParaView-4.4.0-Qt4-Linux-64bit.tar.gz I was unable to
> launch it. Attempting to launch it from the command line resulted in:
>
> $ /opt/ParaView-4.4.0-Qt4-Linux-64bit/lib/paraview-4.4/paraview
> /opt/ParaView-4.4.0-Qt4-Linux-64bit/lib/paraview-4.4/paraview: error
> while loading shared libraries: libGenericIO.so: cannot open shared
> object file: No such file or directory
>
> Turns out that ParaView-4.4.0-Qt4-Linux-64bit/lib/paraview-4.4/libGenericIO.so
> had the following permissions:
>
> -rwx------. 1 1001 1001   378310 Sep 14 15:36 libGenericIO.so
>
> So the fix is simple:
>
> chmod a+r ~/shared/ParaView-4.4.0-Qt4-Linux-64bit.tar.gz
>
> To be clear, I had installed it as,
>
> sudo tar xvzf ~/Downloads/ParaView-4.4.0-Qt4-Linux-64bit.tar.gz -C /opt
>
> Had I unpacked it without sudo, it would have run fine, although just
> for me, not for other users.
>
> Hope this is useful to others who might run into this minor issue.
>
> Eric