You don't unless you wan't it installed in /usr/local/.<div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Wayne Wu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:salad00@gmail.com">salad00@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hello,<br>
<br>
Do we really need to create the symbolic links manually? I extracted<br>
the binary package onto my Ubuntu 64-bit and can execute ParaView<br>
directly from the bin/.<br>
<br>
Thanks.<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
<font color="#888888">Wayne<br>
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On 5 April 2011 16:01, Mark Stock <<a href="mailto:mstock@umich.edu">mstock@umich.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hello,<br>
><br>
> This is my first message to the Paraview list, though I have been using the<br>
> software for several years now.<br>
><br>
> The latest 3.10 prebuilt 64-bit binary package contained no installation<br>
> instructions (which is odd for a package of Paraview's size), plus it was<br>
> missing some critical symlinks.<br>
><br>
> So for the benefit of those who follow, here is how I got it to work<br>
> (installing into /usr/local):<br>
><br>
> % tar -xzf ParaView-3.10.0-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz<br>
> % cd ParaView-3.10.0-Linux-x86_64/<br>
> % sudo mv bin/* /usr/local/bin/<br>
> % sudo mv lib/* /usr/local/lib64/<br>
> % cd /usr/local/lib64/<br>
> % sudo ln -s paraview-3.10 paraview<br>
> % cd paraview<br>
> % sudo ln -s paraview paraview-real<br>
><br>
> Finally, is there any way to search the Paraview archives? I have a few<br>
> other questions about changes in recent versions (like the default glyph for<br>
> unstructured point sets, which was once an attractive circle, is now an<br>
> awkward square).<br>
><br>
> Mark<br>
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