following the guidance, it's easy to build VTK 6.1.0 on Ubuntu 14.04
[code language="bash"] wget http://www.vtk.org/files/release/6.1/VTK-6.1.0.tar.gz wget http://www.vtk.org/files/release/6.1/VTKData-6.1.0.tar.gz wget http://www.vtk.org/files/release/6.1/VTKLargeData-6.1.0.tar.gz tar zxvf VTK-6.1.0.tar.gz tar zxvf VTKData-6.1.0.tar.gz tar zxvf VTKLargeData-6.1.0.tar.gz mkdir VTK-6.1.0-build cd VTK-6.1.0-build cmake ../VTK-6.1.0 \ -DBUILD_DOCUMENTATION:BOOL=ON \ -DBUILD_EXAMPLES:BOOL=ON \ -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS:BOOL=ON \ -DBUILD_TESTING:BOOL=ON \ -DVTK_Group_Imaging:BOOL=ON \ -DVTK_Group_MPI:BOOL=ON \ -DVTK_Group_Qt:BOOL=ON \ -DVTK_Group_Rendering:BOOL=ON \ -DVTK_Group_StandAlone:BOOL=ON \ -DVTK_Group_Tk:BOOL=ON \ -DVTK_Group_Views:BOOL=ON \ -DVTK_Group_Web:BOOL=ON \ -DVTK_USE_LARGE_DATA:BOOL=ON \ -DVTK_USE_TK:BOOL=ON \ -DVTK_WRAP_PYTHON:BOOL=ON \ -DVTK_WRAP_TCL:BOOL=ON make -j4 sudo make install [/code]
