A pre-built binary of the current visit release (v 3.4.2) is available from the AUR: AUR (en) - visit-bin, so you can easily install it using the Pamac GUI (make sure the AUR is enabled in its 3rd-party preferences), or via the command line:
Edit: I just built the visit-bin package on my Testing branch machine. It took about 8 minutes to finish building (much of that time spent -> Stripping unneeded symbols from binaries and libraries...).
After installing visit-bin, I was not able to launch it via Plasma’s application launcher, due to it having an incorrect command. The visit binaries are stored in /opt/visit/bin/, so the correct command to run is /opt/visit/bin/visit. I was able to open the GUI with that command:
