# Install Paraview 5.6.2 (or 5.6.x) on a Ubuntu 16.04 system

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/install-paraview-5-6-2-or-5-6-x-on-a-ubuntu-16-04-system/3788
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Tags:** opengl
**Created:** [March 11, 2020, 1:27pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/install-paraview-5-6-2-or-5-6-x-on-a-ubuntu-16-04-system/3788 "2020-03-11T13:27:42Z")
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### Author: ![manalis](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@manalis](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/manalis)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2020, 1:27pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/install-paraview-5-6-2-or-5-6-x-on-a-ubuntu-16-04-system/3788/1 "2020-03-11T13:27:42Z")

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Hello,

I have been attempting to use Paraview 5.6.2 on a Ubuntu 16.04 system (laptop) without any success.  
The steps that I followed until now were:

1)I downloaded and untarred the “ParaView-5.6.2-MPI-Linux-64bit”

2)Tried to execute `./bin/paraview`, but I received this error mesage: `xxx/ParaView-5.6.2-MPI-Linux-64bit/lib/paraview: error while loading shared libraries: libOpenGL.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory`

1. I searched around a little bit and I found this topic, which looks similar: [https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-install-paraview-on-a-remote-server-in-linux/2109](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-install-paraview-on-a-remote-server-in-linux/2109)

2. In this topic, the suggestion was: `you need to install libglvnd-dev`. So I tried to perform this step, but ` sudo apt-get install libglvnd-dev` gives me `E: Unable to locate package libglvnd-dev`

3. I also tried to do this manually, following the details from here: [https://github.com/NVIDIA/libglvnd](https://github.com/NVIDIA/libglvnd). However, without any success, as well!

So, after all these steps I thought to ask a question here, since obviously there is something that I am missing here! Any help will be highly appreciated!

Best regards,

PS. I already have an older version of paraview installed (5.0.1) which is related with an earlier OpenFOAM version that I currently have. So, if it is possible, I would like to keep this!

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2020, 1:38am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/install-paraview-5-6-2-or-5-6-x-on-a-ubuntu-16-04-system/3788/2 "2020-03-12T01:38:52Z")

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tbh, the simpler fix is to update to 18.04

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### Author: ![manalis](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@manalis](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/manalis)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2020, 1:55pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/install-paraview-5-6-2-or-5-6-x-on-a-ubuntu-16-04-system/3788/3 "2020-03-12T13:55:05Z")

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Hi Mathieu,

Thank you for your prompt reply! However, I would like to avoid this upgrade for now, so can you think of any possible alternative? Any idea is welcome!

Best regards,

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2020, 3:20am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/install-paraview-5-6-2-or-5-6-x-on-a-ubuntu-16-04-system/3788/4 "2020-03-13T03:20:48Z")

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You can try installing the libglvnd-dev package from 17.04 ou 18.04  
[https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/libglvnd-dev](https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/libglvnd-dev)

You may need to install other needed packages as well.

The only other alternatives is to build libglvnd yourself.