[Paraview] building Paraview with OSMesa from source on Linux

[Sebastien Jourdain]

What did you set in CMake for your install path? Maybe you let the default
be /usr/local or something like that which you don't have access to? If
that's the case, just set the path to be something else where you can write.

Seb

On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 5:44 AM, Hart, Cynthia Joyce - (cyndyb) <
cyndyb at email.arizona.edu> wrote:

> I am attempting to build Paraview with OSMesa support, for use with
> ‘headless’ rendering on my Universities’ HPC cluster.  Needless to say, I
> don’t have root access.  But I do have a ’nice big space’ with which to
> work on.  I set up a install directory in a directory I have permissions
> on.  I’m 99% of the way ’there’ to a build , but I fail on ‘make install’.
> It looks like a permissions issue.. Is there some way around this, without
> permissions?  Here’s where I get stuck:
>
> -- Install configuration: "Release"
>
> CMake Error at cmake_install.cmake:36 (FILE):
>
>   file cannot create directory:
>
>   /rsgrps/rc/cyndyb/ParaView/install/share/paraview-4.3.  Maybe need
>
>   administrative privileges.
>
>
> I have tried, by the way, creating the above directory beforehand – no
> help.  I don’t know very much (at all) about cmake, and the documentations’
> a bit ‘weighty’.  Can somemone tell me what I can do to get past this
> error, or direct me to precisely where I can learn what I need to know,
> here?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cynthia
>
> Scientific Visualization Specialist
> University of Arizona
>
>
>
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