[vtkusers] Installing VTK for Mayavi

[Mathew Mehrian]

Hi there,
I'm new to VTK and the mailing list. Let me know if I'm going about asking questions the wrong way. 
I am new to programming/python. I am working through an introduction to python book, using Ipython, and I need to use mayavi. The book pointed me to "mayavi.sourceforge.net" and from there I followed the installation from sources link to download mayavi-1.5.zip (https://sourceforge.net/projects/mayavi/files/mayavi/1.5/). 
Then I attempted to follow the links for VTK, but they did not connect to anywhere. I went to the VTK.org/downloads and downloaded first the "Standalone Python Interface (Installer)" for linux (and unzipped it), but when trying to import VTK, I got the " No module named vtk" message. I tried installing the zip file from "Source", VTK-7.1.1.zip but got the same error. 
When opening ipython to use mayavi, I input "ipython --gui=wx" and get these errors:
[TerminalIPythonApp] WARNING | Eventloop or matplotlib integration failed. Is matplotlib installed?---------------------------------------------------------------------------ImportError                               Traceback (most recent call last)/home/mathew_mehrian/Enthought/Canopy_64bit/User/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/terminal/interactiveshell.pyc in enable_gui(gui, app)    337         from IPython.lib.inputhook import enable_gui as real_enable_gui    338         try:--> 339             return real_enable_gui(gui, app)    340         except ValueError as e:    341             raise UsageError("%s" % e)
/home/mathew_mehrian/Enthought/Canopy_64bit/User/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/lib/inputhook.pyc in enable_gui(self, gui, app)    248         self._current_gui = gui    249 --> 250         app = gui_hook.enable(app)    251         if app is not None:    252             app._in_event_loop = True
/home/mathew_mehrian/Enthought/Canopy_64bit/User/lib/python2.7/site-packages/IPython/lib/inputhook.pyc in enable(self, app)    310             app = wx.App(redirect=False, clearSigInt=False)    311         """--> 312         import wx    313     314         wx_version = V(wx.__version__).version
/home/mathew_mehrian/Enthought/Canopy_64bit/User/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wx/__init__.py in <module>()     43      44 # Load the package namespace with the core classes and such---> 45 from wx._core import *     46 del wx     47 
/home/mathew_mehrian/Enthought/Canopy_64bit/User/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wx/_core.py in <module>()      2 # Don't modify this file, modify the SWIG interface instead.      3 ----> 4 import _core_      5 import new      6 new_instancemethod = new.instancemethod
ImportError: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpango-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_type_class_adjust_private_offset

Matplotlib is definitely installed, I've used it before. 
Could anyone please help me figure out what it is I am doing wrong?


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