Hi All!

[Martijn de Boer]

Dear Maneesh,

I put the libraries with a link into my site-packages dir.
On my machine this looks like:
martijn:~ > ls -l /usr/local/lib/python1.5/site-packages/

lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           36 Feb 25 11:48
libVTKCommonPython.so -> /usr/local/lib/libVTKCommonPython.so
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           38 Feb 25 11:48
libVTKGraphicsPython.so -> /usr/local/lib/libVTKGraphicsPython.so
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           37 Feb 25 11:48
libVTKImagingPython.so -> /usr/local/lib/libVTKImagingPython.so
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           38 Feb 25 11:48
libVTKPatentedPython.so -> /usr/local/lib/libVTKPatentedPython.so
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root           27 Feb 25 11:48 vtkpython.pth    

the file vtkpython.pth contains the path to the python files for vtk:
 more /usr/local/lib/python1.5/site-packages/vtkpython.pth

/usr/local/lib/vtk/python  

This configuration works fine,
however be sure to have TKinter compiled with your python distribution,
otherwhise many examples won't work!
Martijn

Maneesh Yadav wrote:
> 
> Hi everybody, sorry to be so rude to bug with questions the moment I join
> the list...but I really want to get started with VTK :), so I am having a
> little trouble knowing where to put things to get stuff to work with
> python..
> 
> <Note I installed the rpm on the vtk site>
> 
> I'm still a little shakey as to how python finds packages and modules (I
> know the things that sit in site-packages get found automagically, but if
> my python path is empty does it only look in what is inn
> /usr/lib/python1.5?) but I am having a little trouble as to where to place
> my symbolic links for the vtk libs.  Should I just place all .so and .py
> files in /usr/lib/python1.5
> (that's the base of my python installation)?  Or should I make a package
> with an __init__.py file?  Sorry for the petty question but I just want to
> make sure I do it right (it'll be a pain to clean up all those links if I
> put it in usr/lib or something)...
> 
> Thanks for the help,
> Maneesh
> 
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