Hi Guillermo, I think the content in that wiki page is outdated.
Try setting PYTHONPATH to the following in your .bashrc export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/opt/ParaView-5.3.0-Qt5- OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit/lib/python2.7/site-packages See if that works and let us know, Cory On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 6:04 AM, Guillermo Suárez <[email protected] > wrote: > Dear all, > > Yesterday I installed paraview v5.3 using the binaries from the website on > my Linux (ubuntu) OS. The steps followed are (they my influence on the > final result): > > 1. Download the binaries from http://www.paraview.org. For me this > results in: ParaView-5.3.0-Qt5-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit.tar.gz > 2. Extract and copy them: > > tar xzvf -C /opt/ParaView-5.3.0-Qt5-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit.tar.gz > sudo emacs ~/.bashrc > > 3. then insert the following line, save & close > > export PATH=$PATH:/opt/ParaView-5.3.0-Qt5-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit/ > bin/ > > > Then I created a symbolic link: > > sudo ln -s > /opt/ParaView-5.3.0-Qt5-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit/bin/paraview > /usr/bin/paraview > > sudo ln -s > /opt/ParaView-5.3.0-Qt5-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit/lib/paraview-5.3/ > /usr/lib/paraview-5.3 > > Before installing paraview from the binaries files I was using the version > from Ubuntu repositories (paraview version 5.0 [I think]). Also I was using > a python script which uses paraview to take some snapshoots and it worked > really well. The problem is that now, when I want to use this python > script, it reports this message: > > "from paraview.simple import * > ImportError: No module named paraview.simple" > > I have made some searches on the Internet and I found a web page about > this problem: https://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/EnvironmentSetup > I have copied and pasted those sentences on my .bashrc file, restarted the > computer but it still does not work. > > Could you please help me? > > Best regards, > > Guillermo S. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > -- Cory Quammen Staff R&D Engineer Kitware, Inc.
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