Re: [PyOpenGL-Users] easy_install OpenGL

[Simon W. <sim...@gm...>]

On 10/16/06, Mike C. Fletcher <mcf...@vr...> wrote:
> Simon Wittber wrote:
> > I've just tried to easy_install OpenGL.
> >
> > It doesn't work, throwing this error:
> >
> > error: Unexpected HTML page found at
> > http://dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pyopengl/OpenGL-3.0.0a4-py2.4.egg
> >
> > are there extra easy_install incantations I'm missing?
> >
> Not as far as I know.  I installed to the laptop with just
>
>     easy_install OpenGL
>
> I saw an error like the one you mention when I tried to do the download
> using -f with an https URL, but I'm pretty sure I updated the setup file
> to use an http URL (seems to be using it in your case).
>
> You can try this instead:
>
>     easy_install -f
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pyopengl/OpenGL-3.0.0a4-py2.4.egg?download
> OpenGL
>

After some trial and error, I managed to get easy_install work
installing OpenGL. I had to pass a direct URL to the source zip file
(from a sf.net download mirror) to the -f argument. So, it seems that
the problem is with distutils, not OpenGL!

I ran all my tests (for QGL), and everything worked, except for the
lighting demos. This could be errors in my code however, as I (and
others) have had problems with lighting working correctly on ATI
cards.

-Sw.