How to uninstall Paraview while it is "not installed" on Ubuntu?

ParaView Support
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I can turn on the Paraview through terminal on my Ubuntu, like

xxx$ paraview

However, I cannot uninstall it since “Package ‘paraview’ is not installed”, see below:

xxx$ sudo apt-get purge paraview
[sudo] password for XXX:
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Package ‘paraview’ is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Could anyone please help me solve this problem?

By the way, how to turn on the “PARAVIEW_ENABLE_PYTHON” term on my laptop?

2

Where is paraview coming from? which paraview should show this. Not every program that can be executed is necessarily installed via apt.

That is a build option; there’s nothing you can do to to change it once ParaView is already built.

3

Hi Ben, here is the message:

XXX$ which paraview
/usr/local/bin/paraview

4

That is not an apt maintained ParaView installation. You’ll have to find how it was installed first. Once you have that, we can look at how to potentially uninstall it.

5

Hi Ben, I installed Paraview on my Ubuntu following the instructions on the webpage as follows:
https://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView:Build_And_Install

Unfortunately, I forget in which way I installed and built Paraview.

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Hrm. The wiki really needs to be replaced with more up-to-date docs :confused: . Alas, without that, you’ll probably need to go and excise things manually. If ParaView is the only thing in /usr/local, you can probably just remove most of the files there. If not, the key things to look for are directories with paraview in the name and libraries with -pv in them.

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The very first line of that wiki is : This page has been replaced by build documentation in the paraview repository.

8

Thanks for your reply, but how can I remove the installed one from my Ubuntu now?

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I will give you explicit instructions:

  • Run the paraview you have, find it’s version using the Help … About dialog.
  • download that version from https://www.paraview.org/download/
  • extract that archive, and look at the files inside - they are grouped into directories, bin, lib, share, etc
  • look for equivalent files in /usr/local, and delete them
  • if you get permission errors, use sudo rm to delete them
    Hopefully this helps,
    Aron
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Thanks Aron, I will have a try. Regards!