After unpacking ParaView-4.4.0-Qt4-Linux-64bit.tar.gz I was unable to
launch it. Attempting to launch it from the command line resulted in:

$ /opt/ParaView-4.4.0-Qt4-Linux-64bit/lib/paraview-4.4/paraview
/opt/ParaView-4.4.0-Qt4-Linux-64bit/lib/paraview-4.4/paraview: error
while loading shared libraries: libGenericIO.so: cannot open shared
object file: No such file or directory

Turns out that ParaView-4.4.0-Qt4-Linux-64bit/lib/paraview-4.4/libGenericIO.so
had the following permissions:

-rwx------. 1 1001 1001   378310 Sep 14 15:36 libGenericIO.so

So the fix is simple:

chmod a+r ~/shared/ParaView-4.4.0-Qt4-Linux-64bit.tar.gz

To be clear, I had installed it as,

sudo tar xvzf ~/Downloads/ParaView-4.4.0-Qt4-Linux-64bit.tar.gz -C /opt

Had I unpacked it without sudo, it would have run fine, although just
for me, not for other users.

Hope this is useful to others who might run into this minor issue.

Eric
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