Re: [Visualpython-users] Path to success with {K}Ubuntu Lucid?

[Ron A. <rr...@ro...>]

On 04/07/2010 12:19 PM, Gary Pajer wrote:
> A boost bug still exists in 10.04 beta1.
>
> See
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/boost1.40/+bug/539049
> I'm not 100% sure that this is the culprit, but it may be.
>
> I contributed to the existing bug report on this, and that seemed to
> generate some activity.  *Something* has been fixed and put into the
> repositories for the release, but I'm not yet sure that it fixes the
> problem.   I have had problems (unrelated) getting my 10.04 working
> properly so I haven't been able to see if they fixed the right thing.
> We'll have to keep an eye on this when the next beta and release
> candidates come around, and make more and more noise as the release date
> (April 30, I think)  gets closer.
>
> You might try the improved boost if you can figure out how to install
> it.  I haven't tried yet since my installation is a little gronked.

I upgraded to 10.04 beta today and after a *lot* of trouble booting... 
Well it is still beta...  I was able to install python-visual 1:5.12-1.1 
with libboost-python1.40.0 using synaptic.

I can now run vpython programs again. :-)

In Karmic I was getting crashes with "GdkGLExt-WARNING **: Cannot open 
\xe8\u0002\xc7\u0008L" errors.

The suggested PPA at "https://launchpad.net/~ajmitch/+archive/ppa" didn't 
work for me.  I'm not sure why.

So it does look like they got something fixed.


On a different note:

I came across something which was just a minor annoyance, but maybe worth 
fixing.

ra@Gutsy:~$ python
Python 2.6.5 (r265:79063, Apr  3 2010, 01:56:30)
[GCC 4.4.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import random
 >>> from visual import *
 >>> random.choice(range(7))
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'choice'
 >>> import random
 >>> random.choice(range(7))
6


I don't think this was an issue with earlier versions of visual.

Ron