As a ParaView developer it is useful to keep multiple version of ParaView
installed so that testing for regressions becomes quick and easy. I used to
just drop the binaries from https://www.paraview.org/download/ right into an
~/opt directory, and add custom launchers with
menulibre. To differentiate between
versions I would edit the icon with Gimp so that it includes the corresponding
ParaView version.
Since I started using ansible to set up different VMs and machines it became natural to look for an opportunity to use it everywhere. In this case the goal is:
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