A workaround to install vedo in Ubuntu 20.04

[s1291]

Ubuntu 20.04 is shipped with Python 3.8.2 but the vtk library is not yet available in PyPI for python 3.8 hence it not possible yet to install it using pip. Since vtk is the main dependency of vtkplotter it will not be installed.

The workaround, I found is to install vtk7 using apt package manager:

sudo apt install python3-vtk7

clone the vtkplotter library:

git clone https://github.com/marcomusy/vtkplotter.git

in the file setup.py removevtkfrom the dependencies. Change the line 15 to the following:

install_requires=[],

Now you can install vtkplotter as follows:

python setup.py install

I hope this is helpful.

[marcomusy]

Actually vtkplotter is in the debian repository!
So if you do
sudo apt install python3-vtkplotter
you should get version 2020.2.0 along with vtk7

(i never tested it)

https://packages.ubuntu.com/source/focal/vtkplotter

[RubendeBruin]

There is a wheels package available ( vtk-9.0.0-cp38-cp38-linux_x86_64.whl ) on the vtk download site. https://vtk.org/download/ Doesn't that work? (no idea why it is not on pypi yet)