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The maintainers of vtk put out wheels for most Python/OS combinations, but they're missing wheels for Windows 32 bit and Python 2.7 for Win64, which is why it can't be installed using pip. They do, however, maintain conda recipes at vtk-anaconda. I'm going to add a note in the setup file about this and inform the user that if they're using Windows, they might try using conda.

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It’s strange that pip doesn’t see vtk. Was it installed already using pip or conda? You might try installing it first as a requirement before testing PVGeo.

I can look into making a conda recipe for vtki, but I’m on vacation right now and it might take a bit before I have time to look at it.

Appveyor worked for me for vtki. Try looking at my appveyor.ymland see if you can try implementing that on your end.

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Still need a conda recipe?

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I think it would be beneficial to make installing vtki easier. Plus I need to learn how to set them up

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The issue I'm running into is on Windows x86, vtki is only tested on x64. If I manually install vtki using pip and vtk using conda then all is good. But if I try a simple pip install vtki, pip cannot recognize that vtk is already installed and pip doesn't find a suitable version. This is shown in an AppVeyor build of PVGeo where I am trying to add vtki as a requirement. The full build log is here

$ pip install vtki
 Collecting vtki
 Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/f6/a7/c723412e547b7bec79162a9341f450e2c02e764da33da83f5ac0bf5fea92/vtki-0.14.0.tar.gz (204kB)
 Requirement already satisfied: numpy in c:\miniconda36\lib\site-packages (from vtki) (1.15.4)
 Collecting imageio (from vtki)
 Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/28/b4/cbb592964dfd71a9de6a5b08f882fd334fb99ae09ddc82081dbb2f718c81/imageio-2.4.1.tar.gz (3.3MB)
 Collecting vtk (from vtki)
 Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement vtk (from vtki) (from versions: )
 No matching distribution found for vtk (from vtki)

I'm wondering if I can just change that vtki will only add vtk to its requirements if Windows is x64 or on mac/linux

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See #127

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