# sudo needed to run paraview

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/sudo-needed-to-run-paraview/1007
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [December 5, 2018, 8:21pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/sudo-needed-to-run-paraview/1007 "2018-12-05T20:21:21Z")
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### Author: ![Ron](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@Ron](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Ron)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2018, 8:21pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/sudo-needed-to-run-paraview/1007/1 "2018-12-05T20:21:21Z")

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I downloaded OpenFOAM-v6 and with it came ParaView 5.4.1 64-bit. When using paraFoam or paraview, it immediately crashes with the only message at the terminal:  
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

However, if I enter: sudo paraview it comes up as:  
ParaView 5.4.1 64-bit (Legacy Rendering Backend)  
and appears to work as expected.

This is on a fresh install of Kubuntu 18.04 on a desktop. I assume it is a permissions problem somewhere, somehow. Any ideas for a fix?

From the Paraview About:  
Version 5.4.1 64-bit  
Qt Version 4.8.7  
Architecture 64  
vtkidType size G4bits  
Embedded Python On  
Python Library Path /usr/lib/python2.7  
Python Library Version  
2.7.15rc1 (default, Nov 12 2018, 14:31:15) [GCC 7.3.0]  
Python Numpy Support On  
Python Numpy Path /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/numpy  
Python Numpy Version 1.13.3  
Python Matplotlib Support On  
Python Matplotlib Path /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/matplotlib  
Python Matplotlib Version 2.1.1  
Python Testing off  
MPI Enabled On  
Disable Registry off  
Test Directory  
Data Directory  
OpenGL Vendor NVIDIA Corporation  
OpenGL Version 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.77  
OpenGL Renderer GeForce GTX 650/PCIe/SSE2

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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: [December 5, 2018, 10:35pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/sudo-needed-to-run-paraview/1007/2 "2018-12-05T22:35:36Z")

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We do not release nor manage the version of ParaView provided by Openfoam.

Can you try to download our release from our download page : [https://www.paraview.org/download/](https://www.paraview.org/download/)

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### Author: ![Ron](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ecae2f/32.png) [@Ron](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Ron)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2018, 6:13am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/sudo-needed-to-run-paraview/1007/3 "2018-12-06T06:13:40Z")

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Hi Mathieu. Thanks for responding so fast. Downloaded your release. Same story. Needs sudo to run. According to paraview/About:  
Version 5.6.0 64-bit. OpenGL Version 3.2.0 (instead of 4.6.0).  
Any ideas? Any info that would help?