[Visualpython-users] a fix for Ubuntu Karmic is available

[Guy K. K. <g....@ma...>]

Hello all,

good news! Andrew has tracked down a fix by backporting a patch from 
Boost.Python's Py3k development to the current Boost 1.38 libraries as they're 
present in the current Ubuntu release (Karmic, 9.10).

Notes can be found here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/boost1.38/+bug/457688

So for now the fix is as easy as adding the PPA to your system and doing an 
upgrade:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ajmitch
$ sudo aptitude update
$ sudo aptitude full-upgrade

As far as I got it, this patched version is also supposed to make it into the 
bug fixes for the running Ubuntu release, so that it should be usable by some 
point of time from the normal repositories.

Let me know if you should still encounter somewhere any other misalignments 
with the python-visual or Boost packages regarding this issue. Or even better, 
add a comment to the bug under the URL above.

Guy
(a happy Visual camper again)

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