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

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Thanks for reporting, Eric. I've reported a bug:
http://www.paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=15727

Utkarsh

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Eric Nodwell
<eric.nodwell at numerics88.com> wrote:
> 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
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