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

[Nico Schlömer]

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.

Cheers,
Nico

[1] https://launchpad.net/~nschloe/+archive/ubuntu/vtk7-nightly

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 4:42 PM Elvis Stansvik <elvis.stansvik at orexplore.com>
wrote:

> 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 maintainer) has withdrawn his intention to package VTK 7 :( I didn't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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