[PyMOL] pymol install succeeds - freeglut issues resolved - other issues

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Many thanks to Rob Campbell for, well, not giving the solution to my=20
problem, but pointing me into the right direction and making me keep=20
digging...

Robert Campbell wrote:
> Hello Andreas,
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> Yes you need the Mesa development files and yes there is a conflict
> between FireGL and Mesa.
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> I use Debian so the package names will not be exactly the same, but
> for me the GL/gl.h and GL/glu.h files are provided by the packages
> xlibmesa-gl-dev and xlibmesa-glu-dev respectively. I also use an
> ATI card with the ATI proprietary drivers and I need to force the
> installation of that to overwrite the /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so.1.2 file
> contained in the xlibmesa-gl (not xlibmesa-gl-dev) package. I don't use
> Xorg, yet, but I'm sure that doesn not change any of the above.

For Fedora and xorg, the situtation is a little different.  Mesa=20
development files are nowhere to be found in any Fedora repository.=20
Instead, there is a xorg-x11-devel (note the conspicuous absence of=20
anything mesa-like).  I tried to install it.  xorg-x11-devel requires=20
freetype-devel, which in turn requires fontconfig-devel.  What would the=20
world be without rpm and DSL?  Finally, everything installed.  The=20
FireGL driver has no issues with all this.  glxgears gives the same=20
numbers as before, and O10 runs smoothly.

Then I took another shot at pymol - and suffered another failure, though=20
much later in the process.  png.h doesn't exist, which is, surprisingly=20
for me, not provided by libpng.  Completely lost again, then flash of=20
very bright light (or was it the dawn of the new day?):  libpng-devel!=20
And this indeed solved the last problem, and pymol is now installed!


Thanks Rob, thanks Warren!!


Andreas



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