How to install mayavi on Colab?

I tried installing mayavi on Colab using pip:

!pip install mayavi


This threw the following error:

Running setup.py bdist_wheel for mayavi ... error

The rest of the error output is available at the Colab document.

Solution: Work in Progress

Following the response from @Bob-Smith, I found that his solution needed a slight change for installing the dependencies:

!apt-get install vtk6
!apt-get install libvtk6-dev python-vtk6

!apt-get install vtk6

!apt-get install libvtk6-dev python-vtk6

Problems Faced and Workaround Found (PFWF)

PFWF-001 !apt-get install python-vtk throws the following error:

!apt-get install python-vtk

Package 'python-vtk' has no installation candidate

I found a command-reference for this:

!apt-get install libvtk5-dev python-vtk

!apt-get install libvtk5-dev python-vtk

However, this command also did not work. The package name had changed from libvtk5-dev to libvtk6-dev and the python binding for VTK has changed from python-vtk to python-vtk6. Clearly this kind of change will continue to happen in future and you may need to check the package name and the python binding for VTK before running the following statement:

libvtk5-dev

libvtk6-dev

python-vtk

python-vtk6

!apt-get install libvtk6-dev python-vtk6

!apt-get install libvtk6-dev python-vtk6

Note: If you are here looking to solve VTK installation problems for python and this does not solve that you may want to look here: installing-vtk-for-python

Installing mayavi still throws error:
Although the two steps above install the dependencies, the last line: !pip install mayavi spits out the following error:

mayavi

!pip install mayavi

Could not connect to any X display.

1 Answer
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You'll first need to install deps. Run

!apt-get install vtk6
!apt-get install python-vtk
!pip install mayavi


If you've attempted to import myavi before installing the deps, you may need to restart you runtime before executing the !pip install myavi command using the Runtime -> Restart runtime menu.

myavi

!pip install myavi

!pip install mayavi

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