Download ParaView via CVS access. To use ParaView, you will also have to download and install VTK and CMake. (VTK serves as the visualization engine; CMake is the build environment.) Note that the current version of ParaView requires a specific branch of the VTK CVS tree, it will not compile with the main branch. There is currently no method to obtain ParaView as a packaged zip or tar file. Packaged releases will become available in the near future.

(Note: CVS is a source code revision control system used by many participants in the open-source community. To use CVS, you must have it installed on your system. You may wish to use the Cygwin tools on Windows platforms, or WinCVS which provides a very nice GUI to CVS.

CMake can be obtained via CVS using the following procedure.

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@public.kitware.com:/cvsroot/CMake login
(respond with password cmake)

Follow this command by checking out the source code:
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@public.kitware.com:/cvsroot/CMake co CMake

If you are on a Windows system, CMake can also be downloaded and installed using the self-extraction distribution found here.

VTK can be obtained via CVS using the following procedure.

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@public.kitware.com:/cvsroot/VTK login
(respond with password vtk)

Follow this command by checking out the source code:
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@public.kitware.com:/cvsroot/VTK co -r ParaView-0-2 VTK

(Be careful that you don't check the new VTK CVS repository on top of an existing VTK 3.3 or earlier release. Remember, in Windows "vtk" and "VTK" are the same directory name.)

ParaView can be obtained via CVS using the following procedure.

cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@public.kitware.com:/cvsroot/ParaView login
(respond with password paraview)

Follow this command by checking out the source code:
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@public.kitware.com:/cvsroot/ParaView co -r ParaView-0-2 ParaView