You can either download binaries or source code archives for the latest release or access the current development distribution through CVS.

Latest Release (0.6)

Current development distribution

Download ParaView Complete (contains ParaView, VTK and Tcl/Tk 8.3.2) source via CVS access:

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 ParaViewComplete

Alternatively, if you already have VTK, download ParaView source alone via CVS access (you will need Tcl/Tk 8.3.2, other versions will not work):

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 ParaView

If you have not already done so, you will need to download and compile/install CMake to compile ParaView. Also, on Windows, you will have to install the HTML Help library from Microsoft. See http://msdn.microsoft.com.

(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.