ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'paraview'
>>>
(base) rameshkolluru@lichfield:~$
```
I am trying to run script generated by paraview trace option… when I use pvpython I am getting the following
can anyone help me
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2022, 9:56am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/modulenotfounderror-no-module-named-paraview/10301/2 "2022-09-13T09:56:50Z")
Hi @Ramesh_Kolluru ,
How do you install paraview/pvpython ?
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### Author:  [@Ramesh\_Kolluru](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Ramesh_Kolluru)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2022, 10:00am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/modulenotfounderror-no-module-named-paraview/10301/3 "2022-09-13T10:00:27Z")
Paraview I had installed using the default package manager in popos.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2022, 10:03am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/modulenotfounderror-no-module-named-paraview/10301/4 "2022-09-13T10:03:20Z")
Please try with our binary release: [https://www.paraview.org/download/?version=v5.10&filter=Linux](https://www.paraview.org/download/?version=v5.10&filter=Linux)
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### Author:  [@Ramesh\_Kolluru](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Ramesh_Kolluru)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2022, 10:05am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/modulenotfounderror-no-module-named-paraview/10301/5 "2022-09-13T10:05:15Z")
What would be the difference between them? Could you please elaborate why this issue is popping out?
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2022, 10:06am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/modulenotfounderror-no-module-named-paraview/10301/6 "2022-09-13T10:06:18Z")
> [@Ramesh\_Kolluru](#):
>
> What would be the difference between them?
Our binary release works.
> Could you please elaborate why this issue is popping out?
Thats a question for popos package managers.
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### Author:  [@Ramesh\_Kolluru](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Ramesh_Kolluru)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2022, 3:05pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/modulenotfounderror-no-module-named-paraview/10301/7 "2022-09-13T15:05:51Z")
I tired installing from binaires but it fails at this point with the following error… can you help how to get out with this
- Up-to-date: /opt/paraview-5.10.1/install/lib/cmake/llvm/./FindSphinx.cmake
[77%] Completed ‘llvm’
[78%] Built target llvm
[79%] Built target glproto-download
[79%] Built target glproto-update
[79%] Built target glproto-patch
[79%] Built target glproto
[79%] Built target expat-download
[79%] Built target expat-update
[79%] Built target expat-patch
[80%] Built target expat
[80%] Built target pythonmako-download
[80%] Built target pythonmako-update
[81%] Built target pythonmako-patch
[82%] Built target pythonmako
[83%] Built target ninja-download
[83%] Built target ninja-update
[83%] Built target ninja-patch
[83%] Built target ninja
[83%] Built target meson-download
[83%] Built target meson-update
[84%] Built target meson-patch
[85%] Built target meson
[85%] Built target mesa-download
[85%] Built target mesa-update
[85%] Built target mesa-patch
[85%] Performing configure step for ‘mesa’
The Meson build system
Version: 0.60.3
Source dir: /opt/paraview-5.10.1/superbuild/mesa/src
Build dir: /opt/paraview-5.10.1/superbuild/mesa/src/build
Build type: native build
Program python found: YES (/opt/paraview-5.10.1/install/bin/python)
Project name: mesa
Project version: 21.2.1
C compiler for the host machine: cc (gcc 11.2.0 “cc (Ubuntu 11.2.0-19ubuntu1) 11.2.0”)
C linker for the host machine: cc ld.bfd 2.38
C++ compiler for the host machine: c++ (gcc 11.2.0 “c++ (Ubuntu 11.2.0-19ubuntu1) 11.2.0”)
C++ linker for the host machine: c++ ld.bfd 2.38
Host machine cpu family: x86\_64
Host machine cpu: x86\_64
Dependency clang (modules: clangBasic, clangCodeGen, clangDriver, clangFrontend, clangFrontendTool, clangHandleCXX, clangHandleLLVM) skipped: feature microsoft-clc disabled
Program python3 found: YES (/opt/paraview-5.10.1/install/bin/python3)
Fetching value of define “ETIME” : 62
Checking for function “bswap32” : YES
Checking for function “bswap64” : YES
Checking for function “clz” : YES
Checking for function “clzll” : YES
Checking for function “ctz” : YES
Checking for function “expect” : YES
Checking for function “ffs” : YES
Checking for function “ffsll” : YES
Checking for function “popcount” : YES
Checking for function “popcountll” : YES
Checking for function “unreachable” : YES
Checking for function “types\_compatible\_p” : YES
Compiler for C supports function attribute const: YES
Compiler for C supports function attribute flatten: YES
Compiler for C supports function attribute malloc: YES
Compiler for C supports function attribute pure: YES
Compiler for C supports function attribute unused: YES
Compiler for C supports function attribute warn\_unused\_result: YES
Compiler for C supports function attribute weak: YES
Compiler for C supports function attribute format: YES
Compiler for C supports function attribute packed: YES
Compiler for C supports function attribute returns\_nonnull: YES
Compiler for C supports function attribute alias: YES
Compiler for C supports function attribute noreturn: YES
Compiler for C supports function attribute visibility:hidden: YES
Checking if “\_\_uint128\_t” : compiles: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Werror=implicit-function-declaration: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Werror=missing-prototypes: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Werror=return-type: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Werror=empty-body: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Werror=incompatible-pointer-types: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Werror=int-conversion: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wimplicit-fallthrough: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Werror=thread-safety: NO
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wno-missing-field-initializers: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wno-format-truncation: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -fno-math-errno: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -fno-trapping-math: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Qunused-arguments: NO
Compiler for C supports arguments -fno-common: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Werror=format: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wformat-security: YES
Compiler for C++ supports arguments -Werror=return-type: YES
Compiler for C++ supports arguments -Werror=empty-body: YES
Compiler for C++ supports arguments -Wno-non-virtual-dtor: YES
Compiler for C++ supports arguments -Wno-missing-field-initializers: YES
Compiler for C++ supports arguments -Wno-format-truncation: YES
Compiler for C++ supports arguments -fno-math-errno: YES
Compiler for C++ supports arguments -fno-trapping-math: YES
Compiler for C++ supports arguments -Qunused-arguments: NO
Compiler for C++ supports arguments -flifetime-dse=1: YES
Compiler for C++ supports arguments -Werror=format: YES
Compiler for C++ supports arguments -Wformat-security: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wno-override-init: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wno-initializer-overrides: NO
Compiler for C supports arguments -Werror=pointer-arith: YES
Compiler for C++ supports arguments -Werror=pointer-arith: YES
Compiler for C supports arguments -Werror=gnu-empty-initializer: NO
Compiler for C++ supports arguments -Werror=gnu-empty-initializer: NO
Compiler for C supports arguments -Wmicrosoft-enum-value: NO
Checking if “GCC atomic builtins” : compiles: YES
Checking if “GCC atomic builtins required -latomic” : links: YES
Checking if “GCC 64bit atomics” with dependency not-found: links: YES
Library ws2\_32 found: NO
Header \ has symbol “major” : YES
Header \ has symbol “minor” : YES
Header \ has symbol “makedev” : YES
Header \ has symbol “major” : NO
Check usable header “sched.h” : YES
Checking for function “sched\_getaffinity” : YES
Check usable header “xlocale.h” : NO
Check usable header “linux/futex.h” : YES
Check usable header “endian.h” : YES
Check usable header “dlfcn.h” : YES
Check usable header “execinfo.h” : YES
Check usable header “sys/shm.h” : YES
Check usable header “cet.h” : YES
Check usable header “pthread\_np.h” : NO
Checking for function “strtof” : YES
Checking for function “mkostemp” : YES
Checking for function “timespec\_get” : YES
Checking for function “memfd\_create” : YES
Checking for function “random\_r” : YES
Checking for function “flock” : YES
Checking for function “strtok\_r” : YES
Checking for function “getrandom” : YES
Checking for function “qsort\_r” : YES
Checking for function “qsort\_s” : NO
Header \ has symbol “program\_invocation\_name” : YES
Checking for function “posix\_memalign” : YES
Checking whether type “struct dirent” has member “d\_type” : YES
Checking if “strtod has locale support” : links: YES
Checking if “Bsymbolic” : links: YES
Checking if “gc-sections” : links: YES
Checking if “version-script” : links: YES
Checking if “dynamic-list” : links: YES
Compiler for C supports link arguments -Wl,–build-id=sha1: YES
Checking for function “dlopen” : YES
Checking for function “dladdr” with dependency not-found: YES
Checking for function “dl\_iterate\_phdr” : YES
Checking for function “clock\_gettime” : YES
Found pkg-config: /usr/bin/pkg-config (0.29.2)
Run-time dependency zlib found: YES 1.2.11
Found CMake: /usr/bin/cmake (3.22.1)
Run-time dependency libzstd found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
Run-time dependency threads found: YES
Checking for function “pthread\_setaffinity\_np” with dependency threads: YES
Run-time dependency expat found: YES 2.4.1
Library m found: YES
Run-time dependency libdrm found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
WARNING: Ignoring LLVM CMake dependency because dynamic was requested
llvm-config found: YES (/opt/paraview-5.10.1/install/bin/llvm-config) 7.0.0
Run-time dependency LLVM (modules: bitwriter, core, engine, executionengine, instcombine, mcdisassembler, mcjit, native, scalaropts, transformutils, coroutines) found: YES 7.0.0
Run-time dependency valgrind found: NO (tried pkgconfig)
Program bison found: YES (/usr/bin/bison)
Program bison found: YES 3.8.2 (/usr/bin/bison)
Program flex found: YES (/usr/bin/flex)
Run-time dependency libunwind found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
Run-time dependency OpenMP found: YES 4.5
Run-time dependency x11 found: NO (tried pkgconfig and cmake)
meson.build:1952:4: ERROR: Dependency “x11” not found, tried pkgconfig and cmake
A full log can be found at /opt/paraview-5.10.1/superbuild/mesa/src/build/meson-logs/meson-log.txt
CMake Error at /opt/paraview-5.10.1/superbuild/sb-mesa-configure.cmake:47 (message):
Failed with exit code 1
make[2]: \*\*\* [superbuild/CMakeFiles/mesa.dir/build.make:99: superbuild/mesa/stamp/mesa-configure] Error 1
make[1]: \*\*\* [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:8674: superbuild/CMakeFiles/mesa.dir/all] Error 2
make: \*\*\* [Makefile:136: all] Error 2
(base) rameshkolluru@lichfield:/opt/paraview-5.10.1$
---
### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2022, 2:49am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/modulenotfounderror-no-module-named-paraview/10301/8 "2022-09-14T02:49:53Z")
This looks like a configuration/build log.
Please state exactly what are you trying to do with ParaView.
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### Author:  [@Ramesh\_Kolluru](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Ramesh_Kolluru)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2022, 2:51am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/modulenotfounderror-no-module-named-paraview/10301/9 "2022-09-14T02:51:32Z")
I was trying to install paraview from the binaries as told … I had downloaded the tar file extracted it and when I was installing it with make that error popped out.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2022, 2:53am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/modulenotfounderror-no-module-named-paraview/10301/10 "2022-09-14T02:53:38Z")
Binaries do not need to be built. please do the following.
- Download [ParaView-5.10.1-MPI-Linux-Python3.9-x86\_64.tar.gz](https://www.paraview.org/paraview-downloads/download.php?submit=Download&version=v5.10&type=binary&os=Linux&downloadFile=ParaView-5.10.1-MPI-Linux-Python3.9-x86_64.tar.gz)
- Untar it on your desktop
- cd ParaView-5.10.1-MPI-Linux-Python3.9-x86\_64/bin/
- ./paraview
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### Author:  [@Ramesh\_Kolluru](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Ramesh_Kolluru)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2022, 2:57am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/modulenotfounderror-no-module-named-paraview/10301/11 "2022-09-14T02:57:05Z")
I tried this and then tried using the procedure explained … paraview worked but if I have to run a python script using pvpython it again returns the same module not found error
```auto
(base) rameshkolluru@lichfield:~/Downloads/ParaView-5.10.1-MPI-Linux-Python3.9-x86_64/bin$ pvpython
hwloc/linux: Ignoring PCI device with non-16bit domain.
Pass --enable-32bits-pci-domain to configure to support such devices
(warning: it would break the library ABI, don't enable unless really needed).
hwloc/linux: Ignoring PCI device with non-16bit domain.
Pass --enable-32bits-pci-domain to configure to support such devices
(warning: it would break the library ABI, don't enable unless really needed).
Python 3.10.4 (main, Jun 29 2022, 12:14:53) [GCC 11.2.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from paraview.simple import *
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'paraview'
>>>
```
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2022, 2:59am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/modulenotfounderror-no-module-named-paraview/10301/12 "2022-09-14T02:59:59Z")
`./pvpython` instead of `pvpython`, you are using your local install.
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### Author:  [@Ramesh\_Kolluru](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Ramesh_Kolluru)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2022, 3:04am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/modulenotfounderror-no-module-named-paraview/10301/13 "2022-09-14T03:04:46Z")
Thank you it worked … how would I make these default, should I use alias in bashrc or is there anyother way … could you please help me
Regards
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2022, 3:12am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/modulenotfounderror-no-module-named-paraview/10301/14 "2022-09-14T03:12:50Z")
1. Remove your local installation of paraview (and report an issue to popos ?)
2. Put the folder in /opt/
3. Add /opt/ParaView…/bin to your PATH