On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Ming Huang <minghuangvtk at yahoo.com> wrote: > I have asked before, and even got a response, but I still can't install > vtk. I think I just don't know what to do with cmake or if cmake is really > necessary to install vtk You should follow these instructions: http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Building_VTK David