I successfully built and installed VTK-5.4 with Python bindings from source. Yet, when I try to import VTK in python it gives the following Traceback error
File "", line 1, in
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/VTK-5.4.2-py2.6.egg/vtk/init.py", line 41, in from common import *
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/VTK-5.4.2-py2.6.egg/vtk/common.py", line 7, in from libvtkCommonPython import *
ImportError: libvtkCommonPythonD.so.5.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
So I am wondering what I am missing? I have tried adding /usr/local/lib/vtk-5.4 to both PATH and PYTHONPATH environment variables and still get the same result. Any hints or suggestions?
NOTE: libvtkCommonPythonD.so.5.4 exists in /usr/local/lib/vtk-5.4 as a symlink to libvtkCommonPythonD.so.5.4.2