[vtkusers] Ubuntu VTK Compiling problems

[David Gobbi]

Hi Mark,

If you built VTK from source, there is no need to download the binary python
package.

Check the VTK_INSTALL_PYTHON_MODULE_DIR in your CMakeCache.txt,
to make sure that it will install the modules somewhere in your python path.

 - David


On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 8:30 AM, markovich <mark.m.peter at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> i am using Ubuntu 15.10 64 Bit and want to run vtk on a newer version than
> 6.2.
>
> first question:
>
> there is an "Python Interface Standalone Installer" provided on the
> Download
> Page of vtk.org. What is it for and do i need it ? I don't find a way to
> run
> this..
>
> second question:
>
> my steps to compile vtk
>
> #CONFIGURE CMAKE
> #TOGGLE ON FOLLOWING OPTIONS
>
> BUILD_EXAMPLES
> BUILD_SHARED_LIBS
> VTK_Group_Qt
> VTK_Group_Rendering
> VTK_Group_StandAlone
> pythonvtk
> vtk_wrap_python
>
>
> the compiling works fine and after that i run "sudo make install" with no
> errors.
>
> after that i am abled to type "python" in the terminal but it calls "no
> module named vtk" found if i want to import vtk.
> If i type "vtkpython" i can access another python-shell which also does not
> find vtk...
>
> What am i missing in the installation ? :-(
>
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