How To Download And Install Paraview In Ubuntu
Cari Teter
CMake is a tool that makes cross-platform building simple. On several systems it will probably be already installed. If it is not, please use the following instructions to install it. If CMake does not exist on the system nor in the package management of your system, and there are no pre-compiled binaries, use the instructions below on how to build it. Use the most recent source or binary version of CMake from the CMake web site.
For that purpose simply follow these instructions to install to an appropriate location. (these need to be updated for Windows). Note that ParaView is designed to install what it builds. Thus only the libraries and executables that ParaView builds are installed. For example, these instructions will not install Qt or ffmpeg libraries to the specified location. If you are interested in creating a binary package that is complete and can be distributed to other users/systems, you may want to refer to ParaView Super-Build.
This will install all the relevant files in directories under the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX. The executables are installed in $CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX/bin and the libraries are installed in $CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX/lib/paraview-$major.$minor.
This is a deliberate change. It was decided that ParaView should install only what it builds. Since ParaView doesn't build ffmpeg, it doesn't add install rules to install it. If you are interested in creating a package that includes all files ParaView depends on so that you can distribute to other, refer toParaView Super-Build. That is supposed to do exactly that.
Refer to ParaView Super-Build. That is the process we use to generate the official binaries that are distributed on paraview.org. It streamlines the process of building all the depedencies for ParaView and then packaging them into installables or tarballs.
I am new to Ubuntu and I would like to install paraview in another way rather than sudo apt install, I download the version I want and extracted the file how could I proceed with the installement process
This page describes how to build and install ParaView. It covers building for development, on both Linux and Windows. Please Note that Linux (x86_64), Windows (x86_64) and macOS (x86_64 and arm64) version are built and tested by our continuous integration system and are considered supported environments.
sudo apt-get install git cmake build-essential libgl1-mesa-dev libxt-dev libqt5x11extras5-dev libqt5help5 qttools5-dev qtxmlpatterns5-dev-tools libqt5svg5-dev python3-dev python3-numpy libopenmpi-dev libtbb-dev ninja-build qtbase5-dev qtchooser qt5-qmake qtbase5-dev-tools
sudo apt-get install git cmake build-essential libgl1-mesa-dev libxt-dev qt5-default libqt5x11extras5-dev libqt5help5 qttools5-dev qtxmlpatterns5-dev-tools libqt5svg5-dev python3-dev python3-numpy libopenmpi-dev libtbb-dev ninja-build
CMake is a tool that makes cross-platform building simple. On several systems it will probably be already installed or available through system package management utilities. If it is not, there are precompiled binaries available on CMake's download page.
Please refer to Spack documentation for ways of customizing the install, including choosing the version and/or variant to build. Based on the version chosen, spack will download appropriate ParaView source and build it.
To make it easier to build ParaView using spack from an existing source checkout, we have included relevant spack package.yaml files within the ParaView codebase itself. This also makes it easier to keep the spack package up-to-date with any changes to the ParaView buildsystem. With every release (and as frequently as required), we will push the changes to the ParaView paraview.yaml file upstream to the official spack repository.
It's always preferable to install any application from repositories, because then dependencies and updates will be handled by our lovely package management system. You should only download an app from a website as a last resort if you can't install it the secure and easy way :)
Advanced Package Tool, or APT, is a free software user interface that works with core libraries to handle the installation and removal of software on Debian, Ubuntu and other Linux distributions. APT simplifies the process of managing software on Unix-like computer systems by automating the retrieval, configuration and installation of software packages, either from precompiled files or by compiling source code.
apt-get install is followed by one or more packages desired for installation or upgrading. Each package is a package name, not a fully qualified filename. All packages required by the package(s) specified for installation will also be retrieved and installed. The /etc/apt/sources.list file is used to locate the desired packages. If a hyphen is appended to the package name (with no intervening space), the identified package will be removed if it is installed. Similarly a plus sign can be used to designate a package to install. These latter features may be used to override decisions made by apt-get's conflict resolution system.
In Ubuntu 20.04, ParaView (if installed from APT, version 5.7.0) does not seem to rended any results and no errors are reported (neither in ParaView nor in the terminal). It just shows an empty render view.
How to reproduce:
1. In Ubuntu 20.04, install ParaView from APT: `sudo apt install paraview`
2. Open any ParaView-compatible file (some examples shipped with the precompiled binaries)
3. Click "Apply" --> Normally the geometry should appear in the render view, but here nothing appears.
How to check the precompiled binaries:
1. Download and extract the same version of ParaView from the website [1]
2. Run `ParaView-5.7.0-MPI-Linux-Python3.7-64bit/bin/paraview`
3. Open an example from `ParaView-5.7.0-MPI-Linux-Python3.7-64bit/share/paraview-5.7/examples/`, e.g. `can.ex2`.
4. Click "Apply" --> The results render normally and a shape appears on the right of the screen.
But I want to visualize my results, i tried to install paraview through sudo apt get paraview, but it seems there is a conflict between paraview and vtk9 and it removes libvtk9-dev during installation as seen in the attachment. Then my program crashes and cannot build because it can not find vtk anymore. Is there a way to install paraview without removing libvtk9-dev?
Note: The option PARAVIEW_INSTALL_... refers to a CMake build option that is valid for this ParaView version, so that it will copy the Qt libraries into ParaView's own lib/paraview-3.12 folder, so that the custom Qt installation doesn't need to be made available for the whole OpenFOAM installation.
But for example in Ubuntu, this doesn't work very well. You'll also need to provide the path to the main Python library with the option -python-lib. For example in a 64-bit Ubuntu installation, for using the Python 2.7 library:
Building and installing and running OpenFOAM in your home directory gives you some advantages. It is common practice to share the home directories across all machines machines on a network. In this setup all computers will have access to and run the same binaries compiled by the same compiler to help ensure consistent results. It also makes sharing data for cluster work easier. Also to really leverage the power of OpenFOAM you will want to write code to link to and extend it. If it was installed in a common directory individual users programs could clash via naming conflicts etc...
Unfortunately this is not a winning situation for everybody. If you build and install OpenFOAM in your home directory you can't use it on heterogeneous machines on a network, i.e. a z80 based machine cannot run OpenFOAM compiled for a 6502 based machine, unless it has emulation software in which case it would be slow. Fear not because it is possible to configure OpenFOAM to compile and install in a common directory on each machine to accommodate heterogeneous machines on a network.
If you do find errors, the first one is usually the one to blame for all of the other errors after that. Unless of course you've spotted the error explained in the subsection below, namely: Weird error message: make: [install] Error 1 (ignored) - what does it mean? - in that case, you can ignore that particular error message and search for the next one, if there is any.
The explanation is simple: Scotch's building procedure requires one to build it directly in the source code folder, which makes it a requirement to clean up after the building and installation steps are complete, so that one can also build other architectures of OpenFOAM and Scotch. For example, if you need both 32 and 64-bit builds, you will need Scotch's source code folder to be cleaned from the previous build, so that the next build can occur with success.
For ideas on how to build CMake from source code, please refer to the pages dedicated to detail how to install OpenFOAM and ParaView on Linux: Installation/Linux. For example, see the step #12 on this page/section: Installation/Linux/OpenFOAM-2.2.2/Ubuntu#Ubuntu_10.04
Now, please keep in mind that this can be considered a security risk, because this means that you'll be accessing a secure website through HTTPS, but without a valid certificate for said communication. This is usually because the local copy of the certificate list installed on your system is outdated and you can still go ahead safely with the download. But in some situations it might mean that either the target website is in fact insecure/compromised or that there is a man-in-the-middle attack going on; this could at the very least mean that the data you're getting might be getting corrupted on download.
Notice the very first line on the start of this description? Namely "enabling readline support"? The reason for this is that the readline library is only partially installed, where the header is present but the respective library isn't.
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