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Quick installation of paraview:
Step 1: Update system:
sudo apt-get update
Step 2: Install: paraview
Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:
sudo apt-get install paraview
Package Details | |
| Package: | paraview |
| Version: | 3.14.1-1ubuntu1.1 |
| Maintainer: | Ubuntu Developers |
| Home page: | http://www.paraview.org/ |
| Description: | Parallel Visualization Application ParaView is an open-source, multi-platform application designed to visualize data sets of size varying from small to very large. The goals of the ParaView project include the following: . * Develop an open-source, multi-platform visualization application. * Support distributed computation models to process large data sets. * Create an open, flexible, and intuitive user interface. * Develop an extensible architecture based on open standards. . ParaView runs on distributed and shared memory parallel as well as single processor systems and has been successfully tested on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and various Unix workstations, clusters and supercomputers. Under the hood, ParaView uses the Visualization Toolkit as the data processing and rendering engine and has a user interface written using Qt. Homepage: http://www.paraview.org/ |
| Distro: | Ubuntu 12.04 LTS |
| Release: | |
| Repo/Section: | universe/science |
How to install paraview on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
First of all update your system with the command:
sudo apt-get update
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Above command will download the package lists for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on your system. This will update the list of newest versions of packages and its dependencies on your system.
After downloading the latest package list with the help of above you can run the installation process.
If paraview is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L paraview' will give followin error.
deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$ dpkg -L paraview Package `paraview' is not installed. Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents. deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$
Installing paraview:
After system update use the following command to install paraview:
sudo apt-get install paraview
Above command will confirm before installing the package on your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Operating System. If you are not already logged in as su, installer will ask you the root password. After completion of the installation you can use the package on your system.
How to uninstall/remove paraview from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the paraview from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. For uninstalling this package you can easily use the apt command and remove the package from Linux Operating System.
To remove the paraview following command is used:
sudo apt-get remove paraview
Following command is used to remove the paraview package along with its dependencies:
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove paraview
This will remove paraview and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.
Completely removing paraview with all configuration files:
Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:
sudo apt-get purge paraview
or you can use following command also:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove paraview
Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with paraview package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.
