[Paraview] Something wrong with Ubuntu 10.10 -> compared with Ubuntu 10.04

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

If you simply run pvpython executable and import paraview, does that work?

Utkarsh

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Mr. M <newsboost at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry, no - I'm sure that there's only one version of paraview installed -
> the machine has a fresh Ubuntu 10.10 installation...
>
> Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
>>
>> Do you have multiple versions of paraview  installed by any chance?
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 5:47 PM, newsboost guy <newsboost at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi David:
>>>
>>> - thanks for LD_LIBRARY_PATH-suggestion
>>> - I also found this suggestion on google and tried it earlier, however it
>>> still didn't / doesn't work (slightly different message):
>>>
>>> ---------------
>>> $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/paraview python
>>> Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Sep 15 2010, 16:22:56)
>>> [GCC 4.4.5] on linux2
>>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> from sys import path
>>>>>> path.append('/usr/lib/paraview')
>>>>>> from paraview.simple import *
>>>>>>
>>>
>>> paraview version 3.8.0, Date: 2010-03-26
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/paraview/servermanager.py", line
>>> 2922,
>>> in _proxyDefinitionsUpdated
>>>    if vtkSMObject.GetProxyManager().GetProxyDefinitionsUpdated():
>>> AttributeError: GetProxyDefinitionsUpdated
>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/paraview/servermanager.py", line
>>> 2922,
>>> in _proxyDefinitionsUpdated
>>>    if vtkSMObject.GetProxyManager().GetProxyDefinitionsUpdated():
>>> AttributeError: GetProxyDefinitionsUpdated
>>> ---------------
>>>
>>> Any other clever ideas, please?
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2011-01-18 20:49, David Partyka wrote: If you add /usr/lib/paraview to
>>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH does it work?
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Mr. M. <newsboost at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Dear all
>>>>
>>>> Please bear over with me, but I've tried to google for the following
>>>> error
>>>> messages and have seen that other people have the same problem as me
>>>> (but
>>>> the threads have been unanswered). I hope somebody can help me avoid
>>>> this
>>>> error:
>>>>
>>>> -------------------
>>>> $ python
>>>> Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Sep 15 2010, 16:22:56)
>>>> [GCC 4.4.5] on linux2
>>>> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> from sys import path
>>>>>>> path.append('/usr/lib/paraview')
>>>>>>> from paraview.simple import *
>>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>>>  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>>>>  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/paraview/simple.py", line 39, in
>>>> <module>
>>>>   import servermanager
>>>>  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/paraview/servermanager.py", line 43,
>>>> in <module>
>>>>   import paraview, re, os, new, sys, vtk
>>>>  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/paraview/vtk/__init__.py", line 4,
>>>> in
>>>> <module>
>>>>   from libvtkCommonPython import *
>>>> ImportError: libvtkCommonPythonD.so.pv3.8: cannot open shared object
>>>> file:
>>>> No such file or directory
>>>>      -------------------
>>>>
>>>> But it's not true - I've have the file it's looking for:
>>>>
>>>> martin at MEK-404-MFJO-01:~$ locate libvtkCommonPythonD.so
>>>> /usr/lib/paraview/libvtkCommonPythonD.so
>>>> /usr/lib/paraview/libvtkCommonPythonD.so.pv3.8
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ???
>>>>
>>>> I know somebody who's running Ubuntu 10.04 and doesn't have this problem
>>>> so I think the problem is related to something that has changed between
>>>> these two versions...
>>>>
>>>> Please advice - any suggestions are most welcome...
>>>>
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