Hi all, I am quite new to the Linux environment and I want to build Paraview on my machine. Is there a set of coherent step by step instructions that I can follow to build Paraview and all its dependencies on my machine with as little headache as possible? Thanks in advance.

Yes there is. With Linux, the superbuild is not the simplest way to build ParaView. See here : Kitware/ParaView/blob/master/Documentation/dev/build.md # Building ParaView This page describes how to build and install ParaView. It covers building for development, on both Unix-type systems (…

This is what I’m looking for thank you. I am ultimately looking to render my data off-screen and have no interaction with the GUI, will I need any additional information?

You do not need to build ParaView for that. Just use pvpython. Edit: What do you mean exactly by “off-screen” ?

If I have a python script I can just run it in my Linux machine and it will save a screen shot of a 3d render without any interaction with the GUI. I guess headless would be the better term.

Well, headless could mean that you do not have a GPU or that you do not have a X server running. If you do have a GPU and a X server running, you can just download the release and use pvpython to achieve your goal.

The machine that I will ultimately end up using Paraview on will not have a GPU.

Ok ! In this case you will need to build with osmesa. If your linux distribution does not provide an osmesa package, I would suggest trying to build the ParaView superbuild.

Thanks @mwestphal , I do not have osmesa is their a set of instructions to follow to install the superbuild outside of what is provided on the gitlab repo ?

The instructions are indeed there.

Hi @mwestphal , I am again picking up this task after transitioning to other elements of my work for a few months. I am still having trouble building the SuperBuild after reading through the gitlab repository’s readme. I am trying to build this on my debian10 machine to do some experimentation, but I…

the following configuration should be what you need: ENABLE_osmesa=ON …

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