Installing paraview on Ubuntu

Mileguir · January 11, 2021, 2:50pm

Hi,
I’m trying to install ParaView-5.9.0-RC3-MPI-Linux-Python3.8-64bit on ubuntu.
I installed a Xming server.
When I tried to activate paraview I received the following message,

What am I doing wrong?

Your help is appriciated.

Thanks.

Marcelo

mwestphal · January 11, 2021, 2:55pm

Your graphic driver is incorrect. Are you able to run glxgears or glxinfo ?

Xming is for windows, not ubuntu, I’m confused of your setup here.

Mileguir · January 11, 2021, 2:57pm

To be honest I’m new with paraview and Ubunto as well… I’ll be happy if you could give me a hand…

Thanks

mwestphal · January 11, 2021, 3:00pm

Are you using Ubuntu inside Microsoft Windows ?

Mileguir · January 11, 2021, 3:01pm

Yes I am. Windows 10

mwestphal · January 11, 2021, 3:05pm

Follow this:

Mileguir · January 11, 2021, 3:13pm

Hi,
I followed the instructions.

the xeyes program runs, but paraview don’t.
it gives me the same error message.

Thanks for your help…

mwestphal · January 11, 2021, 3:20pm

Long story short, use ParaView for windows.

Mileguir · January 11, 2021, 3:27pm

Thanks.

The problem is to browse from paraview for windows (that is working fine) the folder of the results obtained inmy home directory in Ubunto…

mwestphal · January 11, 2021, 3:29pm

How can I post process the results from OpenFOAM? I am unable to launch Paraview/ParaFoam from terminal?

It is not possible to use ParaView within the container, you will need to download ParaView for Windows from the ParaView website, install it directly on Windows and use it outside of the Docker container. Create a file with the suffix ”.foam” e.g. type the command ”touch a.foam” in your case folder. Launch ParaView and browse the case folder. Open the file with suffix ”.foam” to start the post processing.

Joachim_P · January 13, 2021, 2:52am

What about sharing the file system between both OS? You should be able to mount one of your Windows partition on Ubuntu, save the results on it and then read them back with PV on Windows.

Iose · January 27, 2021, 10:05am

Hi Marcelo,
the sharing is easy; your Ubuntu WSL on Windows 10 will be stored at C:\Users$YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Local\Packages\CanonicalGroupLimited.Ubuntu20.04onWindows_79rhkp1fndgsc\LocalState\rootfs
or something similar like this… Be aware I have version Ubuntu 20.04, but I don’t know which version you have…
If you would like to launch paraview directly from Ubuntu WSL the first step is launch xLaunch application on your windows and as second step launch paraview from your comand line…
But as Mathieu mentioned - the easiest way is using Paraview for Windows… It works very well…