In gmane.comp.mathematics.sage.support, you wrote: > --Apple-Mail-2-1006251222 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Mar 10, 2012, at 11:08 PM, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > >> > Can someone please provide accurate instructions for installing vtk? >> Thank you for your report. >> >> It seems that vtk support in sage has been >> abandoned for quite some timei (like, 4 years!). While there is still >> an experimental package vtk_meta-1.spkg, it would not work with a recent >> version of Sage on OSX, as there is no more python-***-framework package >> available for Sage. >> Please note that vtk was always an experimental package, so it was never >> really supported. >> It would require some work to see if vtk (version 5.8 now) works with >> Sage, and if yes, how. >> We'll certainly update that hugely obsolete documenation soon, too. >> >> This is now >> http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/12652 >> > Thank you for your response and for creating the ticket in trac. > I will explore other means of creating the visualizations that I need.
I can outline a way to install the current vtk Python bindings into a current Sage installation, although it's not for faint-hearted... In principle, it's pretty straightforward, if you know your way around with cmake, that strange (to me) configuration tool that vtk uses. One has to start Sage shell (sage -sh), and carry on the installation of vtk with Python bindings within this shell. Unfortunately the cmake script does insist on using the system's Python library etc, so this needs to be overwritten manually. I gave up after few tries, but this looked doable, and I didn't try too hard. HTH, Dmitrii > Jim Clark > > -- -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
