Installing VTK

Procedure

1. Use PuTTY to log in to the server as the root user.
2. Upload the VTK source package to the /path/to/VTK directory.
3. Decompress the VTK installation package.

   cd path/to/VTK
   tar -xvf VTK-6.2.0.tar.gz
   cd VTK-6.2.0

4. Compile and install VTK.

   cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=path/to/VTK
   make -j 16
   make install

5. Set the VTK environment variable.

   export PATH=/path/to/VTK/bin:$PATH