[Paraview] paraview.simple

Wed Aug 23 09:58:11 EDT 2017

Guillermo,

I'm sorry that my suggestions didn't work out.

Could you try one last thing? Please run the following commands:

cd /opt/ParaView-5.3.0-Qt5-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit/bin
./paraview

That should work without problem. If it doesn't, we definitely have a problem.

Cheers,
Cory

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 7:32 AM, Guillermo <guillermo180395 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Cory,
>
> I have made a purge of paraview, reinstalled the 5.3 version, as I indicated
> on the first email, but the result is the same,  it does not work and the
> message is the same as in the beginning. Also, the libs you indicated to me
> are not present.
>
> Actually, I really need to use this python script and I do not have too much
> time to spend on it, so I decided to downgrade to 5.0.1 version.
>
> In a near future, 1-1.5 month, I will try it again, as I want to upgrade to
> a newer version. I will let you know if I experiment any issue.
>
> Sorry for the inconveniences,
>
> Really grateful,
>
> Guillermo S.
>
>
> On 22/08/17 13:46, Cory Quammen wrote:
>
> Oops, I failed to change the version number in the line I gave you,
> but caught that and corrected it, just not quite to the right version
> number.
>
> Try
>
> export
> PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/opt/ParaView-5.3.0-Qt5-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit/lib/paraview-5.3
>
> Basically, you have to set the PYTHONPATH to where the lib*Python.so
> files are located. Make sure
> /opt/ParaView-5.3.0-Qt5-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit/lib/paraview-5.3
> exists and confirm that a file starting with libvtkCommonCorePython27
> is there.
>
> Stepping back a bit, you wouldn't have to do any of this PYTHONPATH
> stuff if you just add
>
> /opt/ParaView-5.3.0-Qt5-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit/bin
>
> to your PATH.
>
> HTH,
> Cory
>
> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Guillermo <guillermo180395 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I forgot to mention that the error message is the same as before.
>
>
> On 22/08/17 13:24, Cory Quammen wrote:
>
> Guillermo,
>
> Please CC the mailing list so others can participate and learn from
> the discussion.
>
> That looks like progress. Now try adding to your .bashrc:
>
> export
> PYTHONPATH=$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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