I have compile deb packages for rpi like so. I pushed the the wheel build var though to debuild with --set-envvar=“VTK_WHEEL_BUILD=ON” as it doesn’t look like Debian enable that
salsa.debian.org/science-team/vtk9/-/raw/master/debian/rules
Code:
apt install -y chrpath cmake debhelper-compat default-jdk default-libmysqlclient-dev dh-sequence-python3 doxygen-latex \
ghostscript gnuplot-nox graphviz hdf5-tools dh-sequence-javahelper libalglib-dev javahelper libavcodec-dev \
libavformat-dev libavutil-dev libdigest-md5-perl libdouble-conversion-dev libeigen3-dev libexpat-dev \
libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev libftgl-dev libgdal-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libgl-dev libgl2ps-dev \
libglew-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libglu-dev libhdf5-openmpi-dev libhpdf-dev libjpeg-dev libjs-mathjax \
libjsoncpp-dev liblz4-dev libmrmpi-dev libnetcdf-cxx-legacy-dev libnetcdf-dev libogg-dev libosmesa6-dev \
libpng-dev libpq-dev libproj-dev libsqlite3-dev libswscale-dev libtbb-dev libtheora-dev \
libtiff-dev libutfcpp-dev libx11-dev libxdmf-dev libxml2-dev libxpm-dev libxt-dev lzma mpi-default-dev \
pkg-config python3-dev python3-matplotlib python3-mpi4py qtbase5-dev libqt5opengl5 \
r-base-core r-base-dev r-base xauth xvfb
git clone https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/vtk9.git
cd vtk9
dch -a "compiled by djsftree"
debuild -i -us -uc -b --set-envvar="VTK_WHEEL_BUILD=ON"
/usr/lib/python3 -m pip install wheel
/usr/lib/python3 setup.py bdist_wheel
/usr/lib/python3 -m pip install dist/vtk-*.whl
This at least maintains deb packaging