[vtkusers] VTK Problem Upon Python 2.5 Upgrade

[Shari Rolnick]

> 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).

I'm using bash here.  (I generally use t/csh at work, so that would probably
explain my confusion there.  It seemed to work, though . . .)

> >> 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 ?
/usr/local/lib contains all the libvtk*.so files.  It also contains a
python2.4 directory, a python2.5 directory, and a vtk-5.0 directory.  Will
it hurt anything to have both python directories there?  I'm also not sure
what the vtk-5.0 directory is - here is what it contains:

[shari at localhost vtk-5.0]$ ll
total 180
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 2007-08-18 19:34 CMake drwxr-xr-x  2 root root
4096 2007-05-09 15:42 doxygen
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 10207 2007-05-09 15:42 hints
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  1862 2007-05-09 15:42 pkgIndex.tcl drwxr-xr-x 15
root root  4096 2007-05-09 15:42 tcl drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096
2007-05-09 15:42 testing
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  1469 2007-05-09 15:42 UseVTK.cmake
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  1301 2007-05-09 15:42 VTKBuildSettings.cmake
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  4964 2007-05-09 15:42 vtkCommonKit.cmake
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  6458 2007-08-18 19:34 VTKConfig.cmake
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  7675 2007-05-09 15:42 vtkFilteringKit.cmake
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   990 2007-05-09 15:42 vtkGenericFilteringKit.cmake
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  5500 2007-05-09 15:42 vtkGraphicsKit.cmake
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  1511 2007-05-09 15:42 vtkHybridKit.cmake
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  3483 2007-05-09 15:42 vtkImagingKit.cmake
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  4069 2007-05-09 15:42 vtkIOKit.cmake
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  3498 2007-05-09 15:42 VTKLibraryDepends.cmake
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  3717 2007-05-09 15:42 vtkRenderingKit.cmake
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  2662 2007-05-09 15:42 vtkVolumeRenderingKit.cmake
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  1005 2007-05-09 15:42 vtkWidgetsKit.cmake
[shari at localhost vtk-5.0]$

When I try to run vtkpython, here is what I get:

[shari at localhost testing]$ vtkpython
vtkpython: error while loading shared libraries: libvtksys.so.5.0: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory
[shari at localhost testing]$


Thank you again for all your help!

Shari

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