Hi Fabian,

> I am looking for an rpm package of vtk (Visualization
> Toolkit) which works with SL 4.1. I found one vtk-4.5
> package, but it needs a newer 'libstdc++'. I get this
> message:
> 
> rpm -i vtk-4.5.0-0.cvs.13.fc4.i386.rpm 
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.4) is needed by
>         vtk-4.5.0-0.cvs.13.fc4.i386
> 
> Maybe, anybody knows where I get a suitable package!?

I tend to find that it's best to compile vtk from source. I know it's a 
pain, but there are so many options when compiling vtk that it's almost 
always the case that any pre-built packages don't quite provide what I'm 
after. For instance I tend to want the Java, Tcl and Python wrappings, 
the docs, the examples, the patented classes, and so on.

Although at first vtk does seem a bit daunting to compile from scratch, 
it's a lot better than it used to be. I find the cvs version tends to 
work a lot better than the releases (you can find that here: 
http://www.vtk.org/get-software.php#cvs) and indeed I compiled vtk only 
a couple of weeks ago on my SL4.1 box and it worked first time (it did 
take about an hour though!)...

Rob

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