# how to bundle example visualization files
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-bundle-example-visualization-files/17038
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [August 2, 2025, 4:49am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-bundle-example-visualization-files/17038 "2025-08-02T04:49:08Z")
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### Author:  [@qbisi](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/qbisi)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2025, 4:49am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-bundle-example-visualization-files/17038/1 "2025-08-02T04:49:08Z")
Hi, i am packaging paraview on nixpkgs, I want to bundle example visualization examples to Paraview.
There has been a duplicated discussion here :
> [@Where to put example visualization files?](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/where-to-put-example-visualization-files/6753):
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> Hello, I want to bundle example visualization examples to Paraview. I download ParaViewTestingDataFiles-v5.9.0.tar.gz. I unpack everything to share/paraview-5.9/examples. However, it error looking for disk\_out\_ref.ex2 in /examples. So I copy everything in /share/paraview-5.9/examples/Testing/Data/\* and put it to /share/paraview-5.9/examples Paraview now able to see and open the example visualizations. My question is, is it the correct way to do this? What about ParaViewTestingDataStore-v5…
However the discussion is for paraview-5.9 and the bundled examples have been changed in paraview-6.0.0.
Is there any stable scripts or examples file that i can make use of across different version?
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2025, 11:28am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-bundle-example-visualization-files/17038/2 "2025-08-04T11:28:27Z")
There is kind of a script, but it’s a CMake install command that just copies the files into the examples directory: [https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview-superbuild/-/blob/master/projects/paraviewtutorialdata.cmake?ref\_type=heads](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview-superbuild/-/blob/master/projects/paraviewtutorialdata.cmake?ref_type=heads)
The data is downloaded from [https://www.paraview.org/files/data/ParaViewTutorialData-20220629.tar.gz](https://www.paraview.org/files/data/ParaViewTutorialData-20220629.tar.gz) (see [https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview-superbuild/-/blob/master/versions.cmake?ref\_type=heads#L21](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview-superbuild/-/blob/master/versions.cmake?ref_type=heads#L21)).
While that may not help you in terms of providing a script to do this, hopefully it clarifies how the example data is obtained.
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### Author:  [@qbisi](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/qbisi)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2025, 6:27pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-bundle-example-visualization-files/17038/3 "2025-08-04T18:27:33Z")
Thanks, that works for me.