Re: [Visualpython-users] Error with forward and up

[Bruce S. <Bru...@nc...>]

My apologies: I shouldn't have said "now that I think of it", as you had already 
said this!

Bruce Sherwood

Bruce Sherwood wrote:
> I'm wouldn't think that it's useful to pick up dependencies from Visual 3, which 
> for Linux was based on the old GTK, not the current GTK+ on which Visual 5 is based.
> 
> But it seemed like he was able to build Visual 5; the problem was that it 
> wouldn't run within the larger framework he was trying to use. Evidently he 
> wasn't trying simply to run a VPython program (though now that I think of it, it 
> would be useful to know whether a simple example program would run).
> 
> If the problem is the build itself, the thing to do is to study carefully the 
> extensive notes in INSTALL.txt, which is included in the Linux tarball available 
> at vpython.org.
> 
> Bruce Sherwood
> 
> Guy K. Kloss wrote:
>> On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:06:07 alessandro wrote:
>>> OK. So the only way is to use Visual 5? I need some help installing
>>> Visual 5 on Ubuntu Hardy. I've tried to install the package made by Guy
>>> K. Kloss here
>>>
>>> https://gutefee.massey.ac.nz/moin/Python/3D
>>>
>>> but when I use in my prog. it doesn't work.
>> I must say that I didn't extensively test the package for Hardy, and the 
>> (former) Hardy box now is running Jaunty. So I can't go back and verify. But 
>> the packages were installed using checkinstall, therefore no dependencies 
>> should be listed inside the .deb package, and you're on your own installing 
>> them.
>>
>> What I would suggest is this:
>>
>> * Install the python-visual 3 package (from your distribution) to pull in most
>>   dependencies
>> * remove that package again
>> * install the new python-visual 5 package provided from my wiki (URL above)
>> * run some samples
>>
>> See if the samples will work. If not, check the error message(s) you may get 
>> on the console to figure out what other package might be missing and needs 
>> installing.
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Guy
>>
> 
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