[vtk-developers] Fwd: VTK7 debian packages for Ubuntu 16.04

[Elvis Stansvik]

2016-09-20 16:29 GMT+02:00 Francisco Perez Salgado <f.perez475 at gmail.com>:
> Hi Elvis,
>
> thank you very much for the info. Yes I saw your package searching in
> Google; actually I'm using that one but I just wanted to know if it would be
> official support from vtk.

Ah. I don't think Kitware ever produced Ubuntu packages of VTK of
that's what you mean.

What's needed now is Debian packagers willing to take on the work of
making a package.

It's quite a bit more work to create a package that follows all the
Debian packaging standards (so that it can be accepted into official
repositories). With the package I did I took a lot of shortcuts so to
speak.

> Again thank you very much, your package is very useful.

Glad it could help some.

Elvis

>
> Regards,
> Fran.
>
> El 20/09/2016 16:23, "Elvis Stansvik" <elvis.stansvik at orexplore.com>
> escribió:
>>
>> 2016-09-20 14:52 GMT+02:00 Francisco Perez Salgado <f.perez475 at gmail.com>:
>> > Yep I saw that, but my question is: can I install the package via APT?
>> > In
>> > that case, which repo should I install on my system? Ubuntu 16.04 APT
>> > repos
>> > only have vtk5 and vtk6 by default. My idea is to install vtk with a
>> > simple
>> > command like:
>> >
>> >     apt-get install vtk7 vtk7-dev
>> >
>> > or something similar. In the worst case scenario, can I generate a .deb
>> > package by my own using CPack and upload it to my APT repo?
>>
>> Hi Francisco,
>>
>> As you can see in the bug report linked by Mathieu, Ghislain (package
>> maintainer) has withdrawn his intention to package VTK 7 :( I didn't
>> know this (I was in contact with Ghislain a few months ago, asking
>> what the progress was).
>>
>> As we needed packages of VTK 7 for work (where we use Kubuntu 16.04).
>> I made a single VTK 7 package and uploaded it to this PPA:
>>
>>     https://launchpad.net/~elvstone/+archive/ubuntu/vtk7
>>
>> You can add the repository and install the package with:
>>
>>     sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elvstone/vtk7
>>     sudo apt-get update
>>     sudo apt-get install vtk7
>>
>> But note that:
>>
>>     1) This VTK build might not be configured exactly like you want
>> (see the PPA for what CMake options I used).
>>     2) I'm not updating the PPA anymore as we've switched to using an
>> internal APT repo, feel free take my package and make your own.
>>     3) The package does not follow Debian packaging policies, e.g:
>>         - It installs everything to /opt/VTK-7.0.0 (to not conflict
>> with VTK 6 packages from main repos)
>>         - It's one single package (no split -dev packages)
>>
>> Regarding Python, this package has Python 3 bindings (though since I
>> made the package, we've switched to C++ here at work).
>>
>> Hope this PPA can be of use until someone steps up to do a proper
>> Debian packaging of VTK 7.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Elvis
>>
>> >
>> > Thanks for the quick response.
>> > Fran.
>> >
>> > 2016-09-20 14:13 GMT+02:00 Mathieu Malaterre
>> > <mathieu.malaterre at gmail.com>:
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 1:21 PM, Francisco Perez Salgado
>> >> <f.perez475 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > Hi,
>> >> >
>> >> > I wanted to know if there will be available debian packages (both
>> >> > runtime
>> >> > and develop packages) for Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) soon. The goal is to
>> >> > install
>> >> > VTK through apt repositories instead from source code. I think it
>> >> > would
>> >> > be
>> >> > so useful for final users.
>> >>
>> >> See:
>> >>
>> >> https://bugs.debian.org/810254
>> >>
>> >> 2cts
>> >
>> >
>> >
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