# OpenVR under Linux

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/openvr-under-linux/472
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Tags:** vr
**Created:** [August 24, 2018, 3:32pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/openvr-under-linux/472 "2018-08-24T15:32:17Z")
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### Author: ![Niklas](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@Niklas](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Niklas)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2018, 3:32pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/openvr-under-linux/472/1 "2018-08-24T15:32:17Z")

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Dear All,  
I’d like to use ParaView and OpenVR under Linux, if possible. I’ve downloaded and compiled 5.5.2 with OpenVR support. It compiles and runs, but when Enabling VR (Send to OpenVR) I get the error message:

vtkOpenVRRenderWindow (0x45762a0): VR\_Init FailedUnable to init VR runtime: vrclient Shared Lib Not Found (102)

Steam and SteamVR are both running and working, and I’ve included libopenvr\_api.so in the path yet I still get that message. Looking at the libs that the Windows VR binary ships out, there are no other libs included. Has anybody experience running ParaView OpenVR under Linux, or knows which libraries might be missing?

Thanks and Cheers,  
Niklas

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### Author: ![cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/cory.quammen/32/11193_2.png) [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2018, 2:00pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/openvr-under-linux/472/2 "2018-08-27T14:00:28Z")

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@dcthomp Did you have this working on linux at some point?