Thanks for reporting, Eric. I've reported a bug: http://www.paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=15727
Utkarsh On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 9:36 AM, Eric Nodwell <eric.nodw...@numerics88.com> wrote: > Oops, correction to that previous post. The actual fix (bit of a > sledgehammer) is > > sudo chmod -R a+rx /opt/ParaView-4.4.0-Qt4-Linux-64bit/ > > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Eric Nodwell > <eric.nodw...@numerics88.com> wrote: >> After unpacking ParaView-4.4.0-Qt4-Linux-64bit.tar.gz I was unable to >> launch it. Attempting to launch it from the command line resulted in: >> >> $ /opt/ParaView-4.4.0-Qt4-Linux-64bit/lib/paraview-4.4/paraview >> /opt/ParaView-4.4.0-Qt4-Linux-64bit/lib/paraview-4.4/paraview: error >> while loading shared libraries: libGenericIO.so: cannot open shared >> object file: No such file or directory >> >> Turns out that >> ParaView-4.4.0-Qt4-Linux-64bit/lib/paraview-4.4/libGenericIO.so >> had the following permissions: >> >> -rwx------. 1 1001 1001 378310 Sep 14 15:36 libGenericIO.so >> >> So the fix is simple: >> >> chmod a+r ~/shared/ParaView-4.4.0-Qt4-Linux-64bit.tar.gz >> >> To be clear, I had installed it as, >> >> sudo tar xvzf ~/Downloads/ParaView-4.4.0-Qt4-Linux-64bit.tar.gz -C /opt >> >> Had I unpacked it without sudo, it would have run fine, although just >> for me, not for other users. >> >> Hope this is useful to others who might run into this minor issue. >> >> Eric > _______________________________________________ > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > > Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview