Create Paraview 3.98.1 DEB kits for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

[Stuart Campbell]

Feel free to pass this back to me before you leave

[Martyn Gigg]

Owen said he'd have a look at this

[Owen Arnold]

I've been able to create deb kits for Paraview using the following options.

cmake -G"Unix Makefiles" -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF -DENABLE_paraview=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt -DCPACK_GENERATOR="DEB" -DCPACK_PACKAGE_CONTACT="mantid-help@…"

However, there are several problems.

• CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX gets ignored
• Relating to the above, the package maker tries to create a directory in /usr/doc for which it does not have permission. It's not ideal to create the package with sudo privs on the jenkins job.
• If you do run 'make package' with elevated privs. You can create a package, however, once deployed the structure of this is crazy. the main paraview executable ends up under /usr/lib/paraview-398, and the libraries it requires are in the same directory, so cannot be loaded without modifying the LD_LIBRARY_PATH

The existing job is here ​http://download.mantidproject.org/jenkins/view/ParaView/job/isis_ubuntu-12.04_paraview-3.98.1. At the time of writing. You can pick up the debian file by looking under workspace/build

[Nick Draper]

Moved to r2.6 at the end of r2.5

[Nick Draper]

Moved to backlog at the code freeze for R2.6

[Nick Draper]

Bulk move to assigned at the introduction of the triage step

[Stuart Campbell]

This ticket has been transferred to github issue ​7762