# Where to find old vtk for Python?
**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/where-to-find-old-vtk-for-python/3937
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 9, 2020, 2:05am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/where-to-find-old-vtk-for-python/3937 "2020-08-09T02:05:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@tbillah](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/tbillah)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2020, 2:05am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/where-to-find-old-vtk-for-python/3937/1 "2020-08-09T02:05:14Z")
Hi all,
[vtk PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/vtk/#history) only has versions \>8.0.0. Is there a place where I can get `vtk==7.1`? I tried `pip install vtk==7.1` only to run in to:
```auto
Collecting vtk==7.1
ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement vtk==7.1 (from versions: 8.1.0, 8.1.1, 8.1.2)
ERROR: No matching distribution found for vtk==7.1
```
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### Author:  [@TJ\_Corona](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/TJ_Corona)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2020, 2:27am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/where-to-find-old-vtk-for-python/3937/2 "2020-08-09T02:27:19Z")
There are no official pip installable packages for VTK \< 8, but you can compile the python bindings from the available source code.
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### Author:  [@tbillah](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/tbillah)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2020, 2:38am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/where-to-find-old-vtk-for-python/3937/3 "2020-08-09T02:38:13Z")
Okay, can you please point me to the instruction? I don’t see any setup.py or instruction so it is not apparent to me immediately how to.
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### Author:  [@tbillah](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/tbillah)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2020, 2:47am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/where-to-find-old-vtk-for-python/3937/4 "2020-08-09T02:47:50Z")
Okay found something [https://vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Configure\_and\_Build](https://vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Configure_and_Build)
But how do I make a Python package out of it?
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### Author:  [@tbillah](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/tbillah)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2020, 5:13pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/where-to-find-old-vtk-for-python/3937/5 "2020-08-11T17:13:43Z")
Ping @TJ_Corona … and all other developers.
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### Author:  [@TJ\_Corona](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/TJ_Corona)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2020, 5:50pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/where-to-find-old-vtk-for-python/3937/6 "2020-08-11T17:50:07Z")
My impression is that it will be a nontrivial amount of work to construct a pip-installable package for VTK 7. You can start by looking at how it was performed for [VTK 8](https://readthedocs.org/projects/vtkpythonpackage/downloads/pdf/latest/) and [VTK 9](https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/-/blob/master/CMake/vtkWrapSettings.cmake). Alternatively, you may want to consider moving to VTK 9.