# ParaView install error: Copyright.txt is using the wrong path

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-install-error-copyright-txt-is-using-the-wrong-path/1187
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [January 25, 2019, 9:54pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-install-error-copyright-txt-is-using-the-wrong-path/1187 "2019-01-25T21:54:24Z")
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### Author: ![Haocheng\_Liu](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/haocheng_liu/32/46_2.png) [@Haocheng\_Liu](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Haocheng_Liu)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2019, 9:54pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-install-error-copyright-txt-is-using-the-wrong-path/1187/1 "2019-01-25T21:54:24Z")

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Hi, When trying to build a ParaView downstream application with the PV master branch, I run into the following error when calling `ninja install` in ParaView build dir:

Error message as below:

> - CMake Error at cmake\_install.cmake:323 (file):  
> file INSTALL cannot find “[//Copyright.txt](https://Copyright.txt)”.  
> FAILED: CMakeFiles/install.util  
> cd /Users/haochengliu/Kitware/cmb/buildDebug-cmb6-vtk-new-module/superbuild/paraview/build && /Applications/CMake.app/Contents/bin/cmake -P cmake\_install.cmake  
> ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.  
> ➜ build vim cmake\_install.cmake

\<build-dir\>/cmake\_intall.cmakeLine 323:

> - 322 if(“x${CMAKE\_INSTALL\_COMPONENT}x” STREQUAL “xlicensex” OR NOT CMAKE\_INSTALL\_COMPONENT)  
> 323 file(INSTALL DESTINATION “${CMAKE\_INSTALL\_PREFIX}/share/doc/ParaView” TYPE FILE FILES “/Copyright. txt”)  
> 324 endif()

After a quick grep through, I fail to find an easy fix. Ideas?

OSX Mojave + Apple LLVM version 10.0.0 (clang-1000.11.45.5) + CMake 3.12.0

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### Author: ![Haocheng\_Liu](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/haocheng_liu/32/46_2.png) [@Haocheng\_Liu](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Haocheng_Liu)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2019, 9:54pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-install-error-copyright-txt-is-using-the-wrong-path/1187/2 "2019-01-25T21:54:35Z")

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@ben.boeckel

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### Author: ![ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [January 28, 2019, 1:23pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-install-error-copyright-txt-is-using-the-wrong-path/1187/3 "2019-01-28T13:23:45Z")

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It’s an easy fix, but the problem is that `paraview-config.cmake` isn’t 100% useful right now anyways. Planning on getting to that this week.