Re: [sage-devel] vtk installation issues

2013-10-07 Thread Vincent Delecroix
I also failed to install it in Sage. But on the other hand it was trivial to install it with the package manager on Debian/Ubuntu (and any Unix I guess)... does anyone know how far the GSoC project of having the builtin Python instead of the one shipped with Sage has gone ? Vincent 2013/10/7, Jer

Re: [sage-devel] vtk installation issues

2013-10-07 Thread Jeroen Demeyer
It seems that vtk has never truly been supported in Sage and the Sage package has been abandoned for quite some time. So the "real" bug is the fact that the package is still mentioned in the documentation. See http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/12652 -- You received this message because you are s

[sage-devel] vtk installation issues

2013-10-05 Thread tate engstrand
Hello, all. I am a student in the chemistry department at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. I've been attempting to install Mayavi from within Sage for use in QM visualization. I am running 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 on an HP dv7 laptop. I have successfully built sage 5.11 from source. I've re