I am trying to install Mayavi on my desktop workstation, running Fedora 26. It's working fine in Python 2 (2.7.13) but not with Python 3 (3.6.2), where the installation fails because Python can't find the module vtk. I've installed all the packages I think I need (hence it works with Python 2). e.g.
$ rpm -qa | grep -i vtk
vtk-qt-7.1.1-3.fc26.x86_64
vtk-python-7.1.1-3.fc26.x86_64
vtk-qt-python-7.1.1-3.fc26.x86_64
vtk-7.1.1-3.fc26.x86_64
vtk-java-7.1.1-3.fc26.x86_64
vtk-devel-7.1.1-3.fc26.x86_64
vtk-tcl-7.1.1-3.fc26.x86_64
vtk-qt-tcl-7.1.1-3.fc26.x86_64
But Python 3 can't see VTK, though Python 2 can.
$ python2 -c "import vtk"
$ python3 -c "import vtk"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'vtk'
Now, as far as I know, VTK didn't support Python 3 until the end of 2015/start of 2016. But I figure it's had a year to percolate through various systems...
I tried poking around in the installation files to see if I could find more information. find /usr/lib64/vtk/ | grep -i python turned up a bunch of libraries with Python27D in the file names and I noticed a corresponding lack of anything with Python3. Similarly, there's a folder /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/vtk/ but nothing under python3.5 or python3.6.
Is VTK not supported with Python 3 on Fedora (through the repositories, anyway)?
