[vtkusers] Installation of VTK for Python on Ubuntu 11.10

François Louis LAILLIER fanloulaillier at msn.com
Tue Feb 28 17:55:22 EST 2012


     Hi Vtkusers,

I have a problem during the installation of Vtk lib for python.

I compile a cmake installation files. When I run, the installation, no 
errors.

But when I tryed to import vtk in python i get this error.

 >>> import vtk
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/vtk/__init__.py", line 
41, in <module>
     from vtkCommonPython import *
ImportError: libvtkCommonPythonD.so.5.8: cannot open shared object file: 
No such file or directory
 >>>

I tryed to "locate" this file on my workstation.

Return of locate function :

fanlou at Bureau:~/Binaries/Linux_build_VTK$ locate libvtkCommonPythonD.so.5.8
/home/fanlou/Binaries/Linux_build_VTK/bin/libvtkCommonPythonD.so.5.8
/usr/lib/libvtkCommonPythonD.so.5.8
/usr/lib/python2.7/vtk-5.8/libvtkCommonPythonD.so.5.8
/usr/lib/python2.7/vtk-5.8/libvtkCommonPythonD.so.5.8.0
/usr/lib/vtk-5.8/libvtkCommonPythonD.so.5.8
/usr/lib/vtk-5.8/libvtkCommonPythonD.so.5.8.0
/usr/local/lib/vtk-5.8/libvtkCommonPythonD.so.5.8
/usr/local/lib/vtk-5.8/libvtkCommonPythonD.so.5.8.0

If the file is located, "everywhere" on my WS, it's because I copy and 
paste the files, to make some try.

Do you have an idea where the .so file must be to be found by python ?

Thank you in advance and take care about you.

François Louis.





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