I want to install the visualization toolkit vtk into my sage on OS X 10.6.8. I 
am running sage 4.8.

Attempting to follow the instructions on 
http://www.sagemath.org/doc/numerical_sage/installation_osx.html

First of all, if I perform
cd $SAGE_ROOT/local/lib
rm libpng*.dylib
and then start sage, sage complains about not being able to find the libraries 
I just removed.

I reinstalled sage, started it first, then deleted the library files in a 
separate Terminal window.

Next I issued (and received the response following)
sage: install_package('python-2.5.1-framework')
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)

/Users/jim/<ipython console> in <module>()

/Applications/sage/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/sage/misc/package.pyc in 
install_package(package, force)
    153             if is_package_installed(package):
    154                 raise ValueError, "Package is already installed. Try 
install_package('%s',force=True)"%(package)
--> 155         raise ValueError, "There is no package name starting with 
'%s'."%(package)
    156     os.system('sage -f "%s"'%(L[0]))
    157     __installed_packages = None

ValueError: There is no package name starting with 'python-2.5.1-framework'.


I tried again with parameter force=True as suggested in the traceback, but that 
produced exactly the same traceback.

Can someone please provide accurate instructions for installing vtk?

Thank you,
Jim Clark

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