Paraview Won't Start

Question

I've just installed Paraview on Kubuntu 16.04 largely following these instructions: http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView:Build_And_Install.

I ran make install and it finished successfully, but for the life of me, I can't launch Paraview. If I try to open it from the KLauncher (the 'starrt menu' of Kubuntu), nothing happens at all.

So, I tried running it from the terminal. Running sudo find / -name "paraview" tells me that the executable is stored at the location /usr/local/bin/. So, I cd into the directory and run paraview. All I get is the following:

Aborted (core dumped)

So, I run sudo paraview and I get this:

Bus::open: Can not get ibus-daemon's address. IBusInputContext::createInputContext: no connection to ibus-daemon Aborted (core dumped)

As suggested at this link - https://github.com/dashpay/dash/issues/20 - I run sudo apt-get install ibus and ibus-daemon -d and then run sudo paraview again. Now, I get this:

Aborted (core dumped)

Then, I find out that GUI applications must be run with kdesudo, not sudo...so, I give it a shot and I run into even more errors:

QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: No such file or directory
QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /root/.config/ibus/bus
Bus::open: Can not get ibus-daemon's address.
IBusInputContext::createInputContext: no connection to ibus-daemon

Somehow, this time there's no Aborted (core dumped), but Paraview doesn't open up anywhere either.

Edit: I had installed paraview via apt before, but then removed it afterwards because it was crashing when trying to use certain menus. Also, I thought it would make sense to install the newest version (5.2), as the apt repo installs version 5.01.

Answer 1

As advised by Utkarsh, you can download the latest Paraview binaries at: https://www.paraview.org/download/

Then, you can untar the downloaded archive and directly run Paraview (bin/paraview). Also, You don't need to be root to install and run it.

More generally, Paraview has a lot of dependencies and its build process may be long and difficult. Unless you have a good reason to build Paraview from scratch, it is way more easier to use the pre-built binaries.