[BUG: libvtk5-qt4; Hardy Heron] 24: error: QVTKWidget.h: No such file or directory

[Murat Uenalan]

Binary package hint: libvtk5-qt4

after assembling a dialog with designer-qt4 which used the QVTKWidget, qmake-qt4 failed to compile the file (see email subject)

It seems to be an old known issue on debian (already in 2006), which was closed:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=384908
vtk 384908 libvtk5-dev: missing QVTKWidget.h header

As i have the libvtk.* files installed having version:
5.0.3-1ubuntu1

The bug-report on debian says to have solved the issue at
Source-Version: 5.0.2-1

Can anybody help me to find a ubuntu package thats based on the fixed recent debian release ?

Thanks,
Mue

It seems that I did not install an outdaten package ? libvtk5(.*) seem recent enough:

OUTPUTS

Package: libvtk5-qt4
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 5.0.3-1ubuntu1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/libs
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <email address hidden>
Uncompressed Size: 279k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.5-5), libexpat1 (>= 1.95.8), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.2-20070516), libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1, libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libjpeg62, libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), libqt4-core (>=
         4.3.0), libqt4-gui (>= 4.3.0), libsm6, libstdc++6 (>= 4.2-20070516), libtiff4, libvtk5, libx11-6, libxcursor1 (> 1.1.2), libxext6, libxinerama1, libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.2.0), libxrender1, libxt6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1)
Conflicts: libvtk5-qt3
Description: Visualization Toolkit - A high level 3D visualization library
 This provides the VTK GUI support for Qt4.
 Package: libvtk5
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 5.0.3-1ubuntu1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/libs
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <email address hidden>
Uncompressed Size: 28.1M
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.5-5), libexpat1 (>= 1.95.8), libfreetype6 (>= 2.2), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.2-20070516), libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1, libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libjpeg62, libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), libsm6, libstdc++6 (>= 4.2-20070516), libtiff4,
         libx11-6, libxext6, libxt6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1)
Suggests: libvtk5-dev, vtk-examples, vtk-doc
Conflicts: libvtk, libvtk32, libvtk4, libvtk4c2, libvtk4c2a, python-vtk (< 4.4)
Replaces: libvtk, libvtk32, libvtk4, libvtk4c2, libvtk4c2a
Description: Visualization Toolkit - A high level 3D visualization library
 VTK - the Visualization Toolkit is an object oriented, high level library that allows one to easily write C++ programs, Tcl, Python and Java scripts that do 3D visualization. This package provides the shared libraries needed to run C++
 programs that use VTK. To compile C++ code that uses VTK you have to install libvtk5-dev.

 VTK enables users to concentrate on their work by providing a large number of excellent and feature packed high level functions that do visualization. The library needs OpenGL to render the graphics and for Linux machines Mesa is
 necessary. The terms/copyright can be read in /usr/share/doc/vtk/README and README.html. VTK-Linux-HOWTO has information about using vtk, getting documentataion or help and instructions on building VTK.

Package: libvtk5-dev
New: yes
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 5.0.3-1ubuntu1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/libdevel
Maintainer: Ubuntu MOTU Developers <email address hidden>
Uncompressed Size: 8942k
Depends: libvtk5, xlibmesa-gl-dev | libgl-dev, libglu1-mesa-dev | libglu-dev, libx11-dev, libxt-dev, x11proto-core-dev, libc6-dev
Suggests: vtk-examples, vtk-doc
Conflicts: libvtk4-dev, libvtk-dev, libvtk32-dev
Replaces: libvtk4-dev, libvtk-dev, libvtk32-dev
Description: VTK header files for building C++ code
 This provides the VTK header files required to compile C++ programs that use VTK to do 3D visualisation.

[KIAaze (zohn-joidberg)]

You can use the VTK package from this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~cae-team/+archive/ppa
It has QVTKwidget support.

[Martin Thoma (themoosemind)]

They only have VTK 5.4.2. Do you know a solution with which I can use VTK 5.6.0 (the latest release)?
At the moment I have compiled VTK by myself.
When I try to compile a project which uses VTK, ITK and QT I get the same error
(fatal error: QVTKWidget.h: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden)

[Martin Thoma (themoosemind)]

I have solved this issue for me:
$ CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH=/the/path
$ export CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH

[nizar sallem (nizar-sallem)]

You have to link against libQVTK.so which is in /usr/lib and not in /usr/lib/vtk-5.6.