[vtkusers] Need help installing VTK on Linux

[Jonathan Ruiz Peinado]

I'm afraid I haven't done a guide for python :D

You can check debian/ubuntu packets contents with
dpkg -L [package_name]
into a terminal

so

dpkg -L mesa-common-dev

I guess will work for you.

2012/11/19 Gestuality us <600gestures at gmail.com>

> Thank for the link, but I want to use VTK with Python, do you have any
> link for that?
> I installed mesa using the command "sudo apt-get install
> mesa-common-dev", can you tell me where the files are located? I am unable
> to find the location of these files to give on VTK cmake menu.
>
> Thanks,
> Shripad D
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Jonathan Ruiz Peinado <
> jonathan.ruiz3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've written a guide recently, check it out, is in Spanish, but got lot
>> of copy and paste stuff, and also say something about dependencies...
>>
>> sudo apt-get install default-jdk libgl1-mesa-dev freeglut3-dev libosmesa6-dev swig
>>
>> It's for VTK+GDCM+JAVA. in linux Ubuntu
>>
>>
>> The whole article here http://blog.jonathanruiz.es/?p=337
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2012/11/15 Gestuality us <600gestures at gmail.com>
>>
>>> Hi David,
>>>
>>> After installing mesa, i could still not generate from vtk.
>>> I figured there was a problem with the configuration and I found out
>>> that the paths were not set for opengl libraries in vtk.
>>>
>>> can you please tell me where mesa is usually installed after giving the
>>> command "sudo apt-get install mesa-common-dev". I am not able to locate the
>>> installed files on my machine.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Shripad D
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Gestuality us <600gestures at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi David,
>>>>
>>>> I installed mesa-common-dev like you told me to. But I am not getting
>>>> this on my menu:
>>>> OPENGL_gl_LIBRARY                OPENGL_gl_LIBRARY-NOTFOUND
>>>>
>>>>  OPENGL_glu_LIBRARY               OPENGL_glu_LIBRARY-NOTFOUND
>>>>
>>>>  OPENGL_xmesa_INCLUDE_DIR         OPENGL_xmesa_INCLUDE_DIR-NOTFOUND
>>>>
>>>>  OSMESA_INCLUDE_DIR               OSMESA_INCLUDE_DIR-NOTFOUND
>>>>
>>>>  OSMESA_LIBRARY                   OSMESA_LIBRARY-NOTFOUND
>>>>
>>>> Do i have to configure something?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Shripad D
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:23 PM, David Doria <daviddoria at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Gestuality us <600gestures at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi David,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for the quick reply.
>>>>>> I tried installing mesa-common-dev (which I got from
>>>>>> http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package/xorg-edgers/precise/main/base/mesa-common-dev)
>>>>>> and I got the following error:
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Which distribution are you using? You shouldn't have to "get it from
>>>>> somewhere" - you should use the package manager:
>>>>>
>>>>> Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install mesa-common-dev
>>>>>
>>>>> David
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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