[Visualpython-users] Compiling on RHEL 5.2

[Nathan M. <nt...@gm...>]

I'm working to get a copy of visual 3.2.9 running on a Scientific Linux 5.2
box (RHEL 5, compiled from source).  The system built normally and I have a
copy of visual installed (I think) but when I run a script which calls
visual, it doesn't run.  The error I get in the idle execution window
complains about a missing libgtkgl,

>>>

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File
"/home/nmoore/ibook_home_dir/nmoore/Desktop/learning_games/lightning/lightning.py",
line 8, in -toplevel-
    from visual import *
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/visual/__init__.py", line 15, in
-toplevel-
    import array_backend
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/visual/array_backend.py", line 1,
in -toplevel-
    import cvisual
ImportError: libgtkgl.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory

When I look for this library, it seems to be available,

[nmoore@pilgrim ~]$ locate libgtkgl
/usr/lib/libgtkglext-x11-1.0.a
/usr/lib/libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so
/usr/lib/libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so.0
/usr/lib/libgtkglext-x11-1.0.so.0.2.4
/usr/local/lib/libgtkgl.a
/usr/local/lib/libgtkgl.la
/usr/local/lib/libgtkgl.so
/usr/local/lib/libgtkgl.so.5
/usr/local/lib/libgtkgl.so.5.0.0

Is this an easy thing to fix?  When I configured/compiled visual, I used the
config string,
../visual-3.2.9/configure --prefix=/usr
Should I have specified something else in addition?

regards,

Nathan Moore