[Paraview] paraview.simple

[Cory Quammen]

Guillermo,

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the discussion.

That looks like progress. Now try adding to your .bashrc:

export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/opt/ParaView-5.3.0-Qt5-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit/lib/paraview-5.4

HTH,
Cory

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 10:19 AM, Guillermo Suárez
<guillermo180395 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Cory,
>
> Thank you very much for your fast response. Unfortunately it didn't work (I
> just copied and pasted into the .bashrc the sentence you gave to me).
> However, the new error message is:
>
> Error: Could not import vtkCommonComputationalGeometry
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./<the name of my file>", line XX, in <module>
> from paraview.simple import *
>   File
> "/opt/ParaView-5.3.0-Qt5-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit/lib/python2.7/site-packages/paraview/simple.py",
> line 43, in <module>
>     from paraview import servermanager
>   File
> "/opt/ParaView-5.3.0-Qt5-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit/lib/python2.7/site-packages/paraview/servermanager.py",
> line 53, in <module>
>     from paraview import vtk
>   File
> "/opt/ParaView-5.3.0-Qt5-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit/lib/python2.7/site-packages/paraview/vtk/__init__.py",
> line 7, in <module>
>     from paraview.vtk.vtkCommonCore import *
>   File
> "/opt/ParaView-5.3.0-Qt5-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit/lib/python2.7/site-packages/paraview/vtk/vtkCommonCore.py",
> line 9, in <module>
>     from vtkCommonCorePython import *
> ImportError: No module named vtkCommonCorePython
>
> I have searched around the Internet and I found a thread that I though it
> could help:
> http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/paraview/2014-February/030506.html
>
> The idea is to use this:
>
> setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH  your-install/lib/paraview-4.1:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
>
> setenv PYTHONPATH your-install /lib/paraview-4.1/site-packages: your-install
> /lib/paraview-4.1: your-install /lib/paraview-4.1/site-packages/vtk
>
> I copied and pasted this on my .bashrc file substituting the corresponding
> names, but it didn't work. :(
>
> Any idea?
>
> Really grateful,
>
> Guillermo S.
>
>
>
>
> 2017-08-22 12:31 GMT-01:00 Cory Quammen <cory.quammen at kitware.com>:
>>
>> Hi Guillermo,
>>
>> I think the content in that wiki page is outdated.
>>
>> Try setting PYTHONPATH to the following in your .bashrc
>>
>> export
>> PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/opt/ParaView-5.3.0-Qt5-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit/lib/python2.7/site-packages
>>
>> See if that works and let us know,
>> Cory
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 6:04 AM, Guillermo Suárez
>> <guillermo180395 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> Yesterday I installed paraview v5.3 using the binaries from the website
>>> on my Linux (ubuntu) OS. The steps followed are (they my influence on the
>>> final result):
>>>
>>> Download the binaries from http://www.paraview.org. For me this results
>>> in: ParaView-5.3.0-Qt5-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit.tar.gz
>>> Extract and copy them:
>>>
>>> tar xzvf -C /opt/ParaView-5.3.0-Qt5-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit.tar.gz
>>> sudo emacs ~/.bashrc
>>>
>>> then insert the following line, save & close
>>>
>>> export PATH=$PATH:/opt/ParaView-5.3.0-Qt5-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit/bin/
>>>
>>> Then I created a symbolic link:
>>>
>>>          sudo ln -s
>>> /opt/ParaView-5.3.0-Qt5-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit/bin/paraview
>>> /usr/bin/paraview
>>>
>>>          sudo ln -s
>>> /opt/ParaView-5.3.0-Qt5-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit/lib/paraview-5.3/
>>> /usr/lib/paraview-5.3
>>>
>>> Before installing paraview from the binaries files I was using the
>>> version from Ubuntu repositories (paraview version 5.0 [I think]). Also I
>>> was using a python script which uses paraview to take some snapshoots and it
>>> worked really well. The problem is that now, when I want to use this python
>>> script, it reports this message:
>>>
>>> "from paraview.simple import *
>>> ImportError: No module named paraview.simple"
>>>
>>> I have made some searches on the Internet and I found a web page about
>>> this problem: https://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/EnvironmentSetup
>>> I have copied and pasted those sentences on my .bashrc file, restarted
>>> the computer but it still does not work.
>>>
>>> Could you please help me?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Guillermo S.
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Cory Quammen
>> Staff R&D Engineer
>> Kitware, Inc.
>
>



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Cory Quammen
Staff R&D Engineer
Kitware, Inc.