[Paraview] newbie question -- cannot run simple example

[David E DeMarle]

> Oh, so "I suggest you compile VTK from source, with python wrapping enabled
> and use that directly" wasn't any criticism of ubuntu's package system?

No it wasn't. It was just a suggestion for how to obtain the vtkpython
executable. I didn't even realize you were running linux when I wrote
it, actually.

"apt-get python-vtk"

Should also work to get a python interface to VTK.