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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 01:30:53PM +0200, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> 
> 
> Ola Skavhaug wrote:
> > Garth N. Wells skrev den 26/04-2007 følgende:
> > 
> > [snip] 
> >  
> >> Looks like a problem with my VTK-Python bindings. I get
> >>
> >>   >python2.4 -c "import viper; print viper.__file__"
> >>   Traceback (most recent call last):
> >>     File "<string>", line 1, in ?
> >>     File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/viper/__init__.py", line 1, in ?
> >>       from viper import *
> >>     File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/viper/viper.py", line 10, in   ?
> >>       import vtk
> >>   ImportError: No module named vtk
> >>
> >> My python-vtk package is for Python 2.5, whereas I'm using Python 2.4 
> >> due to the SWIG bug. If I do
> >>
> >>   python -c "import viper; print viper.__file__"
> >>
> >> I get
> >>
> >>   /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/viper/__init__.pyc
> >>
> >> Garth
> > 
> > It looks like you just updated your ubuntu distro to Feisty Fawn. I heared
> > that VTK is not properly built for python 2.5 there. Perhaps it is better to
> > wait for the packages to be fixed what trying to work out a hack.
> >
> 
> I have it working now (built the wrappers using Python 2.4, the switched 
> to 2.5).

I switched back to Python 2.4 (by setting the symlink under /usr/bin)
and then downloaded the old python-vtk package from

    http://packages.ubuntulinux.org/edgy/python/python-vtk

I installed it with dpkg -i and ignored the warnings...

/Anders


> Viper works great! Is it easy to send a snapshot to a file? Can it be 
> called from C++?
> 
> Garth
> 
> 
> > Ola
> > 
> 
> 
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