<div dir="ltr">So I sat down last night an packaged the thing with Python 3 support. If you're running on zesty ;), you can try it out [1]. Might or might not make it into Debian/Ubuntu.<div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Nico</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <font size="2"><a href="https://launchpad.net/~nschloe/+archive/ubuntu/vtk7-nightly">https://launchpad.net/~nschloe/+archive/ubuntu/vtk7-nightly</a></font></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 4:42 PM Elvis Stansvik <<a href="mailto:elvis.stansvik@orexplore.com">elvis.stansvik@orexplore.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">2016-09-20 16:29 GMT+02:00 Francisco Perez Salgado <<a href="mailto:f.perez475@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">f.perez475@gmail.com</a>>:<br class="gmail_msg">
> Hi Elvis,<br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
> thank you very much for the info. Yes I saw your package searching in<br class="gmail_msg">
> Google; actually I'm using that one but I just wanted to know if it would be<br class="gmail_msg">
> official support from vtk.<br class="gmail_msg">
<br class="gmail_msg">
Ah. I don't think Kitware ever produced Ubuntu packages of VTK of<br class="gmail_msg">
that's what you mean.<br class="gmail_msg">
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What's needed now is Debian packagers willing to take on the work of<br class="gmail_msg">
making a package.<br class="gmail_msg">
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It's quite a bit more work to create a package that follows all the<br class="gmail_msg">
Debian packaging standards (so that it can be accepted into official<br class="gmail_msg">
repositories). With the package I did I took a lot of shortcuts so to<br class="gmail_msg">
speak.<br class="gmail_msg">
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> Again thank you very much, your package is very useful.<br class="gmail_msg">
<br class="gmail_msg">
Glad it could help some.<br class="gmail_msg">
<br class="gmail_msg">
Elvis<br class="gmail_msg">
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><br class="gmail_msg">
> Regards,<br class="gmail_msg">
> Fran.<br class="gmail_msg">
><br class="gmail_msg">
> El 20/09/2016 16:23, "Elvis Stansvik" <<a href="mailto:elvis.stansvik@orexplore.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">elvis.stansvik@orexplore.com</a>><br class="gmail_msg">
> escribió:<br class="gmail_msg">
>><br class="gmail_msg">
>> 2016-09-20 14:52 GMT+02:00 Francisco Perez Salgado <<a href="mailto:f.perez475@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">f.perez475@gmail.com</a>>:<br class="gmail_msg">
>> > Yep I saw that, but my question is: can I install the package via APT?<br class="gmail_msg">
>> > In<br class="gmail_msg">
>> > that case, which repo should I install on my system? Ubuntu 16.04 APT<br class="gmail_msg">
>> > repos<br class="gmail_msg">
>> > only have vtk5 and vtk6 by default. My idea is to install vtk with a<br class="gmail_msg">
>> > simple<br class="gmail_msg">
>> > command like:<br class="gmail_msg">
>> ><br class="gmail_msg">
>> > apt-get install vtk7 vtk7-dev<br class="gmail_msg">
>> ><br class="gmail_msg">
>> > or something similar. In the worst case scenario, can I generate a .deb<br class="gmail_msg">
>> > package by my own using CPack and upload it to my APT repo?<br class="gmail_msg">
>><br class="gmail_msg">
>> Hi Francisco,<br class="gmail_msg">
>><br class="gmail_msg">
>> As you can see in the bug report linked by Mathieu, Ghislain (package<br class="gmail_msg">
>> maintainer) has withdrawn his intention to package VTK 7 :( I didn't<br class="gmail_msg">
>> know this (I was in contact with Ghislain a few months ago, asking<br class="gmail_msg">
>> what the progress was).<br class="gmail_msg">
>><br class="gmail_msg">
>> As we needed packages of VTK 7 for work (where we use Kubuntu 16.04).<br class="gmail_msg">
>> I made a single VTK 7 package and uploaded it to this PPA:<br class="gmail_msg">
>><br class="gmail_msg">
>> <a href="https://launchpad.net/~elvstone/+archive/ubuntu/vtk7" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~elvstone/+archive/ubuntu/vtk7</a><br class="gmail_msg">
>><br class="gmail_msg">
>> You can add the repository and install the package with:<br class="gmail_msg">
>><br class="gmail_msg">
>> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elvstone/vtk7<br class="gmail_msg">
>> sudo apt-get update<br class="gmail_msg">
>> sudo apt-get install vtk7<br class="gmail_msg">
>><br class="gmail_msg">
>> But note that:<br class="gmail_msg">
>><br class="gmail_msg">
>> 1) This VTK build might not be configured exactly like you want<br class="gmail_msg">
>> (see the PPA for what CMake options I used).<br class="gmail_msg">
>> 2) I'm not updating the PPA anymore as we've switched to using an<br class="gmail_msg">
>> internal APT repo, feel free take my package and make your own.<br class="gmail_msg">
>> 3) The package does not follow Debian packaging policies, e.g:<br class="gmail_msg">
>> - It installs everything to /opt/VTK-7.0.0 (to not conflict<br class="gmail_msg">
>> with VTK 6 packages from main repos)<br class="gmail_msg">
>> - It's one single package (no split -dev packages)<br class="gmail_msg">
>><br class="gmail_msg">
>> Regarding Python, this package has Python 3 bindings (though since I<br class="gmail_msg">
>> made the package, we've switched to C++ here at work).<br class="gmail_msg">
>><br class="gmail_msg">
>> Hope this PPA can be of use until someone steps up to do a proper<br class="gmail_msg">
>> Debian packaging of VTK 7.<br class="gmail_msg">
>><br class="gmail_msg">
>> Cheers,<br class="gmail_msg">
>> Elvis<br class="gmail_msg">
>><br class="gmail_msg">
>> ><br class="gmail_msg">
>> > Thanks for the quick response.<br class="gmail_msg">
>> > Fran.<br class="gmail_msg">
>> ><br class="gmail_msg">
>> > 2016-09-20 14:13 GMT+02:00 Mathieu Malaterre<br class="gmail_msg">
>> > <<a href="mailto:mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">mathieu.malaterre@gmail.com</a>>:<br class="gmail_msg">
>> >><br class="gmail_msg">
>> >> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Francisco Perez Salgado<br class="gmail_msg">
>> >> <<a href="mailto:f.perez475@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">f.perez475@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
>> >> > Hi,<br class="gmail_msg">
>> >> ><br class="gmail_msg">
>> >> > I wanted to know if there will be available debian packages (both<br class="gmail_msg">
>> >> > runtime<br class="gmail_msg">
>> >> > and develop packages) for Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) soon. The goal is to<br class="gmail_msg">
>> >> > install<br class="gmail_msg">
>> >> > VTK through apt repositories instead from source code. I think it<br class="gmail_msg">
>> >> > would<br class="gmail_msg">
>> >> > be<br class="gmail_msg">
>> >> > so useful for final users.<br class="gmail_msg">
>> >><br class="gmail_msg">
>> >> See:<br class="gmail_msg">
>> >><br class="gmail_msg">
>> >> <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/810254" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://bugs.debian.org/810254</a><br class="gmail_msg">
>> >><br class="gmail_msg">
>> >> 2cts<br class="gmail_msg">
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