[vtkusers] Building/installing VTK 5.4.2 on Ubuntu 9.10 (was: Python compass widget example)

[Anders Wallin]

Thanks! This now allows me to run both ccmake and make without errors.

Then we come to the install part...
I navigate to my build dir and there: VTK/VTK-linux/Wrapping/Python
and run:
sudo python setup.py install

well now what?, I start a python shell and type
import vtk
which results in:
>>> import vtk
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "vtk/__init__.py", line 41, in <module>
    from common import *
  File "vtk/common.py", line 7, in <module>
    from libvtkCommonPython import *
ImportError: No module named libvtkCommonPython



Anders
(wishing someone had "step-by-step, For Dummies" build/installation
instructions)



> You really should not confgure (run cmake or ccmake) in the source
> tree. This will cause you many headaches down the road.
>
> To recover from this, you should delete the entire vtk source tree.
> Checkout vtk again
>
> Make a binary (build) directory. I always make by build directory at
> the same level as my source tree e.g.
>
> mkdir VTK-linux
> cd VTK-linux
> ccmake ../VTK