Re: [Visualpython-users] Help with installation

[Bruce S. <ba...@an...>]

--On Saturday, March 09, 2002 2:09 PM +0100 =C1lvaro Tejero Cantero 
<al...@an...> wrote:

> I am trying to install vpython on debian testing.
> I have installed all the rpm packages from its .deb
> counterparts, plus Numeric. I am using python2.2.
>
> I don't seem to be able to compile cvisual. Is there
> something I'm missing? what is the 'normal' installation
> procedure for debian?
>
> is it usable the unofficial python-visual package?
> It depends still on python-base, so it won't install on my
> system.

At what point does the compilation fail?

I'm not sure what is meant by "unofficial" package, nor what is meant by 
"python-base".

Here is the situation as I understand it for Linux. What is currently 
available at http://vpython.org is a package that is known to install 
easily on various flavors of standard Red Hat Linux, at least as long as 
the Red Hat Linux was not customized to exclude various graphics components =

needed by Visual (in particular, OpenGL, gtk, and gtkglarea). This package 
works by compiling Visual from source.

I don't know what modifications need to be made to the Visual compilation 
procedures to compile on Debian, though I would expect that it is just a 
matter of making sure the libraries mentioned previously are present, 
though perhaps the Makefile would need some adjustments for library 
location.

Note that there are two mechanisms currently available for installing 
Visual. One is the package with script available at http://vpython.org, and =

the other is to download from the CVS repository at http://sourceforge.net.

David Andersen is working on a third mechanism using the Python distutil 
scheme (the scheme used for installing Numeric). But it too depends on 
previous installation of appropriate libraries. He has pointed out that the =

most serious gap at the moment may be that we don't offer a clear 
specification of the library dependencies.

Bruce Sherwood