[vtkusers] vtk 4.0, RH 7.2, Python 2.2.1 install problems

[Phil]

Hi,

[Please forgive yet another newbie question.]

Despite being on a completely different OS (Red Hat 7.2 Linux) I'm having
a very similar problem to Jason

http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/vtkusers/2002-August/012775.html

RH 7.2 comes with Python 1.5, but I've installed Python 2.2.1 in another
location, intending to use the new Python with vtk and other packages.

I built vtk 4.0 using the new Python distribution for the answers to the
2 questions about where to find Python.h and the library. The build and install
seemed to have gone without any errors AFAICT. I also answered affirmatively
to the build Hybrid question, as I'd like to try out MayaVi, whose instructions
indicate a need for that build option.

I was getting some ImportErrors at my first attempt to use vtk through
Python and figured the cure was to copy the whole contents of

	VTK/Wrapping/Python/

into python's area

	/usr/netpub/python-2.2.1/lib/python2.2/

(although I'm not familiar enough to know how to compile
them into the ".pyc" and ".pyo" files that I see from other
packages.)

Also, I've set my LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to include
the directory containing the dynamically loaded libraries for vtk,
such as libvtkCommonPython.so

Nevertheless, trying to run the sample script in

	VTK/Examples/Tutorial/Step1/Python/Cone.py

I get:

$ Cone.py
Adding parser accelerators ...
Done.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./Cone.py", line 9, in ?
    from vtkpython import *
  File "/usr/netpub/python-2.2.1/lib/python2.2/vtkpython.py", line 29, in ?
    exec "from "+kit_name+" import *"
  File "<string>", line 1, in ?
ImportError: No module named libvtkCommonPython
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		What am I missing?

Thanks.
-- 
-Phil Sackinger, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185-0826 USA