Re: [Visualpython-users] install w/ rpm

[Ari H. <ahe...@an...>]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Andrew Morrison wrote:

> Finally, after I could not get libstdc++ upgraded or changed to the right
> version anymore, I gave up and installed via rpm with --nodeps.

Ennnt! You lose ;)

You *must* install visual with the correct libstdc++ version. The libstdc++
version is specified in the dynamic dependencies of the Visual
library, cvisualmodule.so: 
  nimrod:~/cvs/cvisual$ ldd cvisualmodule.so 
        ...
        libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 => /usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 (0x406b5000)
        ...

You must find the package on rpmfind and install it. It lists itself as being
in the libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 package on this machine. I'm sure the version on
RH is at least a few versions behind that. It looks like RH 7 has changed their
naming scheme and are calling the package libstdc++-2.69-69.rpm.

> 
> Then I found out I was using python1.5, which the webstie said not to do,
> so I went out and got python2.0 after getting that installed, I tried to
> uninstall the python-visual rpm and the python-15. rpm and  reinstall
> visual-python with the new version of python.

That's the website being unclear. We removed all the Python-2 syntax in
Visual; it now works in python 1.5.2, and the Linux packages expect to run on
top of 1.5.2.

> 
> It didn't work.   Maybe I'm not using rpm correctly.   Any help would be
> greatly appreciated since I love vpython on my winows machine at home, I'd
> like to use it in the office at school, too.
> 

I apologize for this being a mess. You're welcome to get the source and build
it yourself; putting it in place is not too unstraightforward and it will solve
your library versioning problems. I run debian, and i can't keep around
machines for 3 or 4 RH versions just to produce VPython packages for them.





Ari