Please find below detailed instructions for the
installation of TTK.
These specific notes describe the installation procedure for a Ubuntu Linux 17.04 operating system (but the process should be very similar for other Linux distributions). TTK is also supported on MacOS. Successful ports to Microsoft Windows have been reported.
A video from our tutorial page also shows how to proceed on a step-by-step basis.
The remainder of these notes describe the installation of the version 0.9.1 of TTK along with the version 5.3.0 of ParaView. Other versions of either software packages may require slight variations in the installation procedure. For earlier versions of both software packages, you may want to check out previous versions of our installation notes: TTK 0.9 with ParaView 5.2.0.
Note that this command will also trigger the installation of the (numerous) dependencies of these components.
You can delete the tarballs after the source trees have been decompressed by entering the following commands:
The configuration window opens. Click on the "Configure" button to proceed. Once the configuration is finished, please set the following options as follows (required for TTK's installation):
Optionally, you may want to turn on additional features. See the ParaView build documentation for further details if needed.
Next, click on the "Generate" button and close the configuration window when the generation is completed.
The configuration window opens. Click on the "Configure" button to proceed. At this stage, under Linux, TTK's build should be automatically configured correctly by default and Linux users can click on the "Generate" button.
For MacOS users, the variable
As mentioned previously, it seems that the support of ParaView's development framework is currently not as mature under MacOS than it is under Linux. We recommend MacOS users to omit the above command. Then, in order to use TTK plugins in ParaView, MacOS users will need to load them from the ParaView Plugin Manager. See the related documentation page of ParaView.
MacOS users will need to launch the built ParaView binary from the ParaView source tree and load all the TTK plugins with the ParaView Plugin Manager before continuing.
At this point, you should see the following TTK startup screen:
On this screen, clicking on the "Example Visualizations" link should bring you to the TTK built-in example screen:
From there, clicking on one of the three buttons should generate one of the following three visualizations:
If this is the case, congratulations!
You have just successfully installed TTK on your system!
These specific notes describe the installation procedure for a Ubuntu Linux 17.04 operating system (but the process should be very similar for other Linux distributions). TTK is also supported on MacOS. Successful ports to Microsoft Windows have been reported.
A video from our tutorial page also shows how to proceed on a step-by-step basis.
The remainder of these notes describe the installation of the version 0.9.1 of TTK along with the version 5.3.0 of ParaView. Other versions of either software packages may require slight variations in the installation procedure. For earlier versions of both software packages, you may want to check out previous versions of our installation notes: TTK 0.9 with ParaView 5.2.0.
1. Downloads
TTK builds on top of ParaView for its main user interface. Thus, you will first need to download ParaView's source code. Note that TTK plugins for ParaView will only work with a version of ParaView compiled from source. Thus, if you already installed ParaView with a binary copy, you may need to un-install it before proceeding. Next, download TTK from our download page.
2. Installing the dependencies
Several dependencies will need to be installed in order to compile ParaView and TTK from source. Please enter the following command (omit the$ character) in a terminal to install them (please see
the documentation of your package manager if your operating system is not
Ubuntu Linux):$
sudo apt-get install cmake-qt-gui
libvtk6-dev
qt4-dev-tools
Note that this command will also trigger the installation of the (numerous) dependencies of these components.
Note to non-Ubuntu users, including MacOS users
We recommend in general to install the version 7 of the VTK library and the version 5 of the Qt library, instead of the versions described above (which are only recommended for Ubuntu users).
3. Preparing the sources
Move the tarballs to a working directory (for instance called~/ttk) and decompress them by entering the following commands in
a terminal (this assumes that you downloaded the tarballs to the
~/Downloads directory):$ mkdir ~/ttk$ mv ~/Downloads/ParaView-v5.3.0.tar.gz ~/ttk/$ mv ~/Downloads/ttk-0.9.1.tar.gz ~/ttk/$ cd ~/ttk$ tar xvzf ParaView-v5.3.0.tar.gz$ tar xvzf ttk-0.9.1.tar.gzYou can delete the tarballs after the source trees have been decompressed by entering the following commands:
$ rm ParaView-v5.3.0.tar.gz$ rm ttk-0.9.1.tar.gz
4. Patching the ParaView source tree
In order to enjoy the complete set of TTK features, we recommend at this stage to patch the ParaView source tree. This step is optional. To proceed, go to the patch directory and apply it as follows:$ cd ~/ttk/ttk-0.9.1/paraview/patch$ ./patch-paraview-5.3.0.sh
~/ttk/ParaView-v5.3.0/
5. Configuring, building and installing ParaView
a) Configuration
To enter the configuration menu of ParaView's build, enter the following commands:$ cd ~/ttk/ParaView-v5.3.0/$ mkdir build$ cd build$ cmake-gui ../The configuration window opens. Click on the "Configure" button to proceed. Once the configuration is finished, please set the following options as follows (required for TTK's installation):
· CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release · PARAVIEW_ENABLE_PYTHON=ON · PARAVIEW_INSTALL_DEVELOPMENT_FILES=ON · PARAVIEW_QT_VERSION=4 · VTK_RENDERING_BACKEND=OpenGL2Note to non-Ubuntu users, including MacOS users
We recommend in general to use the version 5 of the Qt library, instead of the version 4 as described above (which is only recommended for Ubuntu users).Optionally, you may want to turn on additional features. See the ParaView build documentation for further details if needed.
Next, click on the "Generate" button and close the configuration window when the generation is completed.
b) Build
Now you can start the compilation process by entering the following command, whereN is the number of available cores on your system (this will
take a LONG time):$ make -jNc) Installation
Once the build is finished, enter the following command to install your build of ParaView on your system:$ sudo make installNote to MacOS users
It seems that the support of ParaView's development framework is currently not as mature under MacOS than it is under Linux. We recommend MacOS users to omit the above command (to use ParaView then, simply invoke the output binary located in the source tree).
6. Configuring, building and installing TTK
a) Configuration
To enter the configuration menu of TTK's build, enter the following commands:$ cd ~/ttk/ttk-0.9.1/$ mkdir build$ cd build$ cmake-gui ../The configuration window opens. Click on the "Configure" button to proceed. At this stage, under Linux, TTK's build should be automatically configured correctly by default and Linux users can click on the "Generate" button.
For MacOS users, the variable
ParaView_DIR may need to be
adjusted prior to clicking the "Generate" button. In particular, this variable
needs to be set to the path to the
directory containing the file ParaViewConfig.cmake.
Once the generation is completed, close the configuration window.b) Build
Now you can start the compilation process by entering the following command, whereN is the number of available cores on your system (this will
take a LONG time):$ make -jNc) Installation
Once the build is finished, enter the following command to install your build of TTK on your system:$ sudo make installAs mentioned previously, it seems that the support of ParaView's development framework is currently not as mature under MacOS than it is under Linux. We recommend MacOS users to omit the above command. Then, in order to use TTK plugins in ParaView, MacOS users will need to load them from the ParaView Plugin Manager. See the related documentation page of ParaView.
Note that, in addition to the installation of TTK plugins for ParaView,
the above command also installed a collection of standalone TTK programs
that
can be used outside of ParaView,
either as command line tools or VTK-based graphical user interfaces. To list
them, enter the following commands (this assumes that you did not modify the
default TTK installation path, /usr/local/):
$ ls /usr/local/bin/*Cmd
$ ls /usr/local/bin/*Gui
If you wish to disable the build and installation of certain TTK components,
just comment the corresponding lines in the CMakeLists.txt file at
the root of the source tree (~/ttk/ttk-0.9.1/CMakeLists.txt in our
example) prior to entering the configuration step of TTK's build (section 6.a).
7. Checking your TTK installation
If you applied all the above steps successfully (including step 4), you can now open a terminal and type the following command to load your TTK-patched ParaView:$ paraviewMacOS users will need to launch the built ParaView binary from the ParaView source tree and load all the TTK plugins with the ParaView Plugin Manager before continuing.
At this point, you should see the following TTK startup screen:
On this screen, clicking on the "Example Visualizations" link should bring you to the TTK built-in example screen:
From there, clicking on one of the three buttons should generate one of the following three visualizations:
If this is the case, congratulations!
You have just successfully installed TTK on your system!
If you have not applied the optional step 4 of this installation procedure, certain TTK features will not be accessible from ParaView and the above built-in examples will not be available in your ParaView build. However, most of TTK features should still work as expected.
Now, please visit our tutorial page to watch video tutorials showing how to use TTK with ParaView with concrete examples and how to use it from your own Python or C++ code or how to extend TTK by writing up your own module!