[vtkusers] VTK Problem Upon Python 2.5 Upgrade

[Dominik Szczerba]

Check if your PYTHONPATH or maybe LD_LIBRARY_PATH points to the right
place, it might need to be /whatever/lib/vtk5.0something and not just
/whatever/lib

And in any case try to invoke your script with vtkpython first.

-Dominik

fred wrote:
> Shari Rolnick a écrit :
>> Okay.  I set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in my .bash_profile file, but it still
>> doesn't
>> work.  Here's the output:
>>
>> [shari at localhost ~]$ source .bash_profile [shari at localhost ~]$ echo
>> $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>> /usr/local/lib:
>>   
> Hmm, what shell do you use ??
> If you use (t)csh shell, you have to set your environment variable in
> csh file,
> not a (ba)sh one.
> If you use (ba)sh shell, you do not have to source it (source is not a
> bash builtin shell, but tcsh).
>>> BTW, your python seems to looking for in /usr/local/src, looks
>>> weird to me...
>>>     
>>
>> I think that was just my inept installation.  I put the source code
>> for VTK
>> there, but when I built it, I think I just built it in place rather than
>> giving it a different directory.  Will that hurt anything?
>>   
> So what should be the meaning of the LD_LIBRARY_PATH ??
> python has to look for libs in /usr/local/lib, not in /usr/local/src !
> 
> Where are your VTK libs installed ?
> 

-- 
Dominik Szczerba, Ph.D.
Computer Vision Lab CH-8092 Zurich
http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~domi