# Build paraview 5.11 with VISIT Bridge on ubuntu
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/build-paraview-5-11-with-visit-bridge-on-ubuntu/11325
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [February 2, 2023, 6:38pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/build-paraview-5-11-with-visit-bridge-on-ubuntu/11325 "2023-02-02T18:38:25Z")
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### Author:  [@sherrifbro](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/sherrifbro)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2023, 6:38pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/build-paraview-5-11-with-visit-bridge-on-ubuntu/11325/1 "2023-02-02T18:38:25Z")
I use paraview5.11 on windows and it works flawlessly with my tecplot files as it comes all setup with the VisIT readers. I want to achieve the same on an ubuntu machine. However, the default ubuntu comes with only paraview 5.4 and I can’t update it simply via sudo apt-get. So, I realized I’ll have to build it manually. I found this documentation [https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/blob/master/Documentation/dev/build.md](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/blob/master/Documentation/dev/build.md) and used it for installation. I must also mention that I had to manually specify my qt5 directory and this post helped me out in that regard: [https://discourse.paraview.org/t/building-error-regarding-qt-verison/6208](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/building-error-regarding-qt-verison/6208).
After doing all this, although I could build a version of paraview that launched and worked as it should, it didn’t contain the VisIT bridge by default. I know that because the readers don’t show up while opening files and my tecplot files that open completely fine on my windows installation, fail to open in this build. So, I thought I’ll add the option -DPARAVIEW\_USE\_VISITBRIDGE=ON in the cmake command along with other options, but the output ends with:
“CMake Warning:
Manually-specified variables were not used by the project: PARAVIEW\_USE\_VISITBRIDGE”.
Could someone please let me know how can I build paraview with the VisIT bridge?
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### Author:  [@jfavre](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/jfavre)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2023, 6:57am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/build-paraview-5-11-with-visit-bridge-on-ubuntu/11325/2 "2023-02-03T06:57:17Z")
the correct option is -DPARAVIEW\_ENABLE\_VISITBRIDGE:BOOL=ON
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2023, 8:38am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/build-paraview-5-11-with-visit-bridge-on-ubuntu/11325/3 "2023-02-03T08:38:03Z")
> [@sherrifbro](#):
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> I realized I’ll have to build it manually.
Hi @sherrifbro
No need, you can just download the binary release from [https://www.paraview.org/download/](https://www.paraview.org/download/)
Best,
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### Author:  [@sherrifbro](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/sherrifbro)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2023, 9:28am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/build-paraview-5-11-with-visit-bridge-on-ubuntu/11325/4 "2023-02-03T09:28:11Z")
Thank you! It worked.
Initially, it threw an error for missing boost libraries. After I installed them via sudo apt-get install libboost-dev, it worked like a charm.
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### Author:  [@sherrifbro](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/sherrifbro)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2023, 9:36am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/build-paraview-5-11-with-visit-bridge-on-ubuntu/11325/5 "2023-02-03T09:36:17Z")
Thanks Mathieu! I tried that before my building attempts. Simply launching it out of the extracted directory was throwing me an error: “qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin “xcb” in “” even though it was found.”
My guess was that it couldn’t find my Qt directories, so I thought if I build it manually I should be able to specify where those directories are (which turned out to be true). I wonder if something like add to path would fix that error with the downloaded version.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2023, 9:37am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/build-paraview-5-11-with-visit-bridge-on-ubuntu/11325/6 "2023-02-03T09:37:59Z")
> [@I'm using Ubuntu 22 and ParaView reports "Could not load the Qt platform plugin 'xcb'"](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/im-using-ubuntu-22-and-paraview-reports-could-not-load-the-qt-platform-plugin-xcb/10642):
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> Install missing xcb packages using apt install libxcb-xinerama0 apt install libxcb-xinput0
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### Author:  [@sherrifbro](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/sherrifbro)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2023, 9:42am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/build-paraview-5-11-with-visit-bridge-on-ubuntu/11325/7 "2023-02-03T09:42:56Z")
Oh, Thanks a ton! Now I have my downloaded version working as well.
This was much easier than building by myself.