Installation Instructions for VCG-Plugins

We currently support multiple ways of working with our plugins on most linux-based systems: The binary distributed VCGParaView package, available as a .deb package, as a downloadable archive, and as a collection of shared object files that can be combined with the official binary version of ParaView 5.6.0.
If you have trouble or questions regarding the VCG-Plugins, please contact: vcgpvsupport(at)iwr.uni-heidelberg.de

Debian Package VCGParaView:

  • Add the public key to your keyring (as root):
    sudo wget -O - https://vcg.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/repos/apt/conf/vcgparaview.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -

  • Download and add the sources list file:
    wget https://vcg.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/repos/apt/conf/vcgparaview.list

  • Move the file to its correct location:
    sudo mv vcgparaview.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

  • Update and install the package with:
    sudo apt update && sudo apt install vcgparaview

Archive:

  • Download the .tar.gz file and extract it:
    tar xvzf vcgparaview.tar.gz

  • Navigating to vcgparaview/bin:
    cd vcgparaview/bin

  • Run ParaView:
    ./paraview

  • NOTE: sudo chmod +x paraview if file is not executable

Shared Object Files:

  • Download the .tar.gz file and extract it:
    tar xvzf vcgparaview_plugins.tar.gz

  • If you do not have ParaView 5.6.0 installed, you can download it from the offical ParaView website. That .tar.gz has to be extracted as well:
    tar xvzf ParaView-5.6.0-MPI-Linux-64bit.tar.gz

  • Move the extracted shared objects to the correct folder in your ParaView where <paraview_path> is the path to your ParaView folder:
    mv ./vcgparaview_plugins/* <paraview_path>/lib/plugins

Paraview Licence:

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