Re: [Visualpython-users] Compiling on Ubuntu 10.04

[Eric A. <Ay...@ma...>]

I'm going through the same problems with 10.04: 
	apt-get install python-visual
by itself appears to work but any attempts to create any visual objects crash python with a random assortment of gtkgl/opengl errors.

Here's the method I've found that works:

	apt-get install libboost-python-dev libboost-signals-dev libboost-thread-dev
	apt-get install libgtkglextmm-x11-1.2-0 libgtkglextmm-x11-1.2-dev
	apt-get install gtkgl-dev
	apt-get install python-gtkglext1
	apt-get install python-visual

Some of that may be redundant, and the order may or may not be important; but I am now reasonably certain that on a fresh 64-bit install of 10.04 on a Core2Duo, those commands in that order will give me a working sphere(). They give me vpython 5.12, which I know is not the latest version but after the absurd amount of time I've blown on this problem I really don't care whether it's the latest or not!

-ea

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Dr. Eric Ayars
Associate Professor of Physics
California State University, Chico
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On May 24, 2010, at 9:44 PM, Bruce Sherwood wrote:

> I did a clean install of Ubuntu 10.04 on a Windows machine and tried to 
> compile Visual. I'm stuck in the configure phase and wonder whether 
> someone can help me get unstuck.
> 
> gtkglextmm depends on gtkmm-2.4, which the configure machinery finds 
> okay (/usr/lib/libgtkmm-2.4) despite there being nothing in 
> /usr/lib/pkgconfig about gtkmm-2.4.
> 
> gtkglextmm also depends on gdkglextmm, which in turn depends on 
> gdkmm-2.4, which the configure machinery claims doesn't exist despite 
> the existence of /usr/lib/libgdkmm-2.4 (as with gtkmm, there's nothing 
> about gdkmm in /usr/lib/pkgconfig).
> 
> So my question is, how does the configure machinery find 
> /usr/lib/libgtkmm-2.4 but not /usr/lib/libgdkmm-2.4? And what should I 
> do to compile the latest source?
> 
> Whoever packaged the working python-visual package for Ubuntu 10.04 
> presumably didn't have my problem, or got around it somehow. When I 
> examine the Ubuntu source used to create the package, I don't see any 
> difference in the configure machinery.
> 
> Bruce
> 
> P.S. I should comment that some auxiliary files, such as the cactus 
> photo in stonehenge.py, are missing from the Ubuntu package. That's my 
> fault; I discovered only rather recently that the make procedure for 
> Linux didn't include a couple of these auxiliary files.
> 
> 
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