error while running paraview executable

ParaView Support
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I installed the paraview v5.12.0 on centos stream 8. When I tried to run paraview, I encountered an error below.

“./bin/paraview: error while loading shared libraries: libtbb.so.12: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.”

Actually, I tried to link libtbb.so.12 to libtbb.so.2. It worked but another error occurred like

“./bin/paraview: symbol lookup error: /root/paraview_build/bin/…/lib64/libvtkParallelMPI4Py-pv5.12.so.1: undefined symbol: PyExc_ImportError”

So, I just unlinked it because I don’t know what I did is right and the second error also include the “12.so” similar to the first error. Does any one who has a clue about the problem?

Thanks in advance.

2

Do you have LD_LIBRARY_PATH set in your env vars ?

3

Thank you for reply. I don’t understand your question properly. Should I add something to LD_LIBRARY_PATH to run paraview?

4

The symptom you are having shows that the wrong lib are being picked up, so you may want to ensure “LD_LIBRARY_PATH” is NOT set.

I installed the paraview v5.12.0 on centos stream 8.

How did you install it ?

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Mostly, I just followed the link “https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/blob/master/Documentation/dev/build.md” for centos 7.

First, I installed packages like
sudo dnf install python3-devel openmpi-devel mesa-libGL-devel libX11-devel libXt-devel qt5-qtbase-devel qt5-qtx11extras-devel qt5-qttools-devel qt5-qtxmlpatterns-devel tbb-devel git

After that I just followed the link like

git clone https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview.git
mkdir paraview_build
cd paraview
git checkout v5.12.0
git submodule update --init --recursive
cd …/paraview_build
cmake -GNinja -DPARAVIEW_USE_PYTHON=ON -DPARAVIEW_USE_MPI=ON -DVTK_SMP_IMPLEMENTATION_TYPE=TBB -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release …/paraview

finally I didn’t use ninja but make like

make -j 16

The above is all what I did. After make, I just tried to run paraview but it failed.

6

Any specific reason for you to build ParaView instead of using the paraview binary release from https://paraview.org/download ?

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There was no specific reason. I just thought that they are just different ways to install it.

What is the difference between them?

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I downloaded binary you said before building it. I just tar it and I can run it without any problem. Thank you very much for your help Mathieu.