Oops, correction to that previous post. The actual fix (bit of a sledgehammer) is
sudo chmod -R a+rx /opt/ParaView-4.4.0-Qt4-Linux-64bit/ On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 3:34 PM, Eric Nodwell <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview
