sudo apt install cmake \
libavcodec-dev \
libavformat-dev \
libavutil-dev \
libboost-dev \
libdouble-conversion-dev \
libeigen3-dev \
libexpat1-dev \
libfontconfig-dev \
libfreetype6-dev \
libgdal-dev \
libglew-dev \
libhdf5-dev \
libjpeg-dev \
libjsoncpp-dev \
liblz4-dev \
liblzma-dev \
libnetcdf-dev \
libnetcdf-cxx-legacy-dev \
libogg-dev \
libpng-dev \
libqt5opengl5-dev \
libqt5x11extras5-dev \
libsqlite3-dev \
libswscale-dev \
libtheora-dev \
libtiff-dev \
libxml2-dev \
libxt-dev \
qtbase5-dev \
qttools5-dev \
qtmultimedia5-dev \
qtbase5-private-dev \
zlib1g-dev
git clone https://github.com/Kitware/VTK.git
cd vtk
git checkout tags/v6.3.0
mkdir build
cd build
ccmake ..
press "c" to configure. If you get error like "cc: error: ARGS: No such file or directory, then change a line inside 2 files GenerateExportHeader.cmake and vtkCompilerExtras.cmake from string(REGEX MATCH "[345]\\.[0-9]\\.[0-9]*" to string(REGEX MATCH "[3456789]\\.[0-9]\\.[0-9]*".
when looks like the compiler stoped (at 95%) and the it will be written on screen that the compiler has produced the following output, press e to exit the screen. The following screen will be interactive and you can turn different flags to on and off. Make sure to turn of qt plugin to off as it needs qt version 4 for vtk version 6.3.0 to compile. Press "c" again to configure and "g" to generate output. Then do the following:
make -j4
## Compiles the workspace
sudo make install
## Installs (copies) the produced libraries and headers inside the system
- For installing vtk from binaries
pip install vtk==8.1.0
## For python version 2
pip3 install vtk==9.1.0
## For python version 3