[vtkusers] Packaging VTK 5.2 for Debian

[Oleksandr Dzyubak]

Hi Tim,

Personally I have built and installed VTK-5.2 on my Debian boxes without 
any problems.
I have 32 and 64 systems with Debian Etch and Lenny with both gcc:

gcc version 4.3.1 (Debian 4.3.1-2)
and
gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21).

I compiled VTK with Tcl/Tk and Python support with no problems.
If you have identical boxes you can easily clone the system with VTK-5.2 
compiled.

No doubts that Mailand Bottoms as the Debian VTK maintainer is
the best person to ask for all Debian specifics.


Regards,

Alex


Tim Bond wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm new to the list, having been pointed here by Gael Varoquaux
> from Enthought after asking my question there and this list being
> suggested as a better place to ask. I've tried looking through 
> the list archives and not found an answer to my question.
>
> I'm part of a research group who are active users of VTK and are
> keen to start using the new features from VTK 5.2. We have a lot
> of systems and it's not very practical to build and install
> software individually on them, hence we're hoping to get hold of
> a Debian / Ubuntu package for 5.2. We had a go at building one
> based on the 5.0 package but are not particularly experienced at
> Debian packaging and came unstuck trying to get vtk-python to
> package up properly.
>
> My question - is anyone aware of ongoing work to get 5.2 building
> in a Debian package framework? If so, I'd be very grateful if you
> could point me in the right direction so we could either make use
> of existing work or combine efforts to get a package built.
>
> I've also been pointed at the Debian package maintainer for VTK
> (Maitland Bottoms) who I've contacted about this.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help or advice!
>
> Regards,
>
> Tim
>