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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>I have successfully built VTK-5.4 from source with the
Python bindings. VTK was installed at </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>/usr/local/lib/VTK-5.4</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>the vtk-python packages ended up at</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/vtk</FONT></DIV>
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face=Calibri>/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/VTK-5.4.2-py2.6.egg-info</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>when I try to import vtk within python I get an import
error that libvtkCommonPythonD.so.5.4 no such file or directory</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>this file does exist in
/usr/local/lib/vtk-5.4</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>I tried adding /usr/local/lib/vtk-5.4 to PATH and
PYTHONPATH but python still does not find the above resource. So, what am
I missing to get this work? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>Any ideas are greatly welcome and
appreciated</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>Azim</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>