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can somebody help me with commands (in terminal) that need to install parview-5.4.1.Currently,I am using paraview-5.0.1 which is installed as default like other software packages in ubuntu-16.04 lts.

A. Singh
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I simply downloaded ParaView-5.4.1-Qt5-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit.tar.gz, uncompressed it, and executed ParaView-5.4.1-Qt5-OpenGL2-MPI-Linux-64bit/bin/paraview.

I did not bother yet modifying my PATH.

I expected this method to have some issues, but I still found none.

sancho.s ReinstateMonicaCellio
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The supported version of paraview for Ubuntu 16.04 is 5.0.1. Of course you can try to install a different version manually, but you may encounter errors and it may be difficult or even impossible to install the package due to unmet dependencies.

To install a different version of paraview manually, follow these steps:

  1. deinstall the current installed version:

    sudo apt remove paraview
  2. download the .deb package you want to install

  3. to install it, click the .deb file or run

    sudo apt install /path/to/package.deb

If you need to install a tar.gz file, follow these instructions: How do I install a .tar.gz (or .tar.bz2) file?

However, I recommend to stick to the supported version for your current Ubuntu release, you're on the safe side this way. If you want to use more up-to-date software you should consider updating to the current release 17.04 – it has paraview v5.1.2.

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