[Paraview] Problem with paraview and Protocol Buffer version

[Daniel Vogler]

Dear all,

I am having trouble building Paraview 5.2.0 (This version or older is 
required for a separate plug-in). Other installations of paraview (not 
compiled from source) work fine.

I run Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. I check out the paraview 5.2.0 release and 
installed Qt5.6.3 (also tried 5.6 and 5.7 because I had trouble with Qt 
during the paraview build earlier) in a separate directory. I have my 
(empty) build directory paraview_bin and paraview 5.2.0 source in 
/home/user/software/paraview_bin and /home/user/software/paraview 
respectively.

- export PATH=/opt/Qt/5.6.3/gcc_64/:$PATH

- ccmake -D PARAVIEW_QT_VERSION:STRING=5 /path/to/paraview

- BUILD_TESTING --> OFF

- generation and make completes

The build works fine, but when I try to execute I get a protobuf error


user:~/software/paraview_bin$ ./bin/paraview
libprotobuf FATAL /home/user/software/paraview/ThirdParty/protobuf/vtkprotobuf/src/google/protobuf/stubs/common.cc:62]
This program requires version 2.6.0 of the Protocol Buffer runtime library, but the installed version is 2.3.0.
Please update your library.
If you compiled the program yourself, make sure that your headers are from the same version of Protocol Buffers as your link-time library.
(Version verification failed in "/build/mir-O8_xaj/mir-0.26.3+16.04.20170605/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/src/protobuf/mir_protobuf.pb.cc".)
Aborted

although my protoc version seems fine

user:~/software/paraview_bin$ protoc --version
libprotoc 2.6.1

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling protoc and libprotobuf as 
well as reinstalling Qt afterwards, but can not figure out this error.

Any suggestions?

Thanks a bunch,

Dan