# Installing VTK in Ubuntu 18.04

**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/installing-vtk-in-ubuntu-18-04/2147
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 25, 2019, 10:53pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/installing-vtk-in-ubuntu-18-04/2147 "2019-11-25T22:53:51Z")
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### Author: ![estan](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/estan/32/460_2.png) [@estan](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/estan)
#### Post date: [November 26, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/installing-vtk-in-ubuntu-18-04/2147/4 "2019-11-26T15:47:10Z")

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I would also highly recommend VTK 8.2.0 instead of 6.3.

Here’s how I just built it on my Ubuntu 18.04 laptop and installed to `$HOME/vtk-inst`:

```auto
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 libpython3-dev libqt5opengl5-dev libqt5x11extras5-dev libsqlite3-dev libswscale-dev libtheora-dev libtiff-dev libxml2-dev libxt-dev qtbase5-dev qttools5-dev zlib1g-dev
git clone git@gitlab.kitware.com:vtk/vtk.git
cd vtk
git checkout v8.2.0
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/vtk-inst \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH=$HOME/vtk-inst \
    -DVTK_Group_Qt=ON \
    -DVTK_QT_VERSION=5 \
    -DVTK_Group_Imaging=ON \
    -DVTK_Group_Views=ON \
    -DModule_vtkRenderingFreeTypeFontConfig=ON \
    -DVTK_WRAP_PYTHON=ON \
    -DVTK_PYTHON_VERSION=3 \
    -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=/usr/bin/python3 \
    -DPYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/include/python3.6 \
    -DPYTHON_LIBRARY=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython3.6m.so \
    -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
    -DVTK_USE_SYSTEM_LIBRARIES=ON \
    -DVTK_USE_SYSTEM_LIBPROJ4=OFF \
    -DVTK_USE_SYSTEM_GL2PS=OFF \
    -DVTK_USE_SYSTEM_LIBHARU=OFF \
    -DVTK_USE_SYSTEM_PUGIXML=OFF \
    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
    ..
make -j$(($(nproc) - 1))
make install

```

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