Re: [Visualpython-users] Compiling on Ubuntu 10.04

[Andrew M. <amo...@de...>]

This bug seems to come up when there is a new release of Ubuntu.

Last fall (or winter, can't remember) when I ran into the problem, the
discussion on this list seemed to indicate that we file bug reports.
So, I posted a comment to this bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/482928

All the discussions I've read seemed to indicate that there is a
problem with how python is making the opengl calls.  For whatever
reason, it only works when the -dev package is installed, which is not
how python normally works.

One of the debian maintainers submitted a fix that now requires the
-dev package to be included on installs of python-visual.  I don't
think that is an ideal fix, but from an end user standpoint (assuming
this trickles down to ubuntu) it should work all right.

I'm no developer, so I can't really complain, but I was hoping it
would be fixed in a better way.

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Venkat Ramanan <ven...@gm...> wrote:
> FWIW, I can confirm Eric's observation.
>
> I recently installed vpython (Ubuntu's version) on my older machine which
> has 32-bit Ubuntu-10.04.
>
> If we just install vpython it doesn't seem to pull all the dependencies.
> When running, it shows some obscure opengl errors.
>
> Then if we do,
>
> apt-get install libgtkglextmm-x11-1.2-dev
>
> it works. Probably a dependency bug.
>
> Bye,
> Venkat.
>
> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Guy K. Kloss <g....@ma...> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 29 May 2010 10:14:26 Eric Ayars wrote:
>> > 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!
>>
>> If you're then just using a binary packaged version of python-visual, you
>> do
>> not need the "*-dev" packages. These are *only* required for
>> building/compiling. So you may want to try to chuck these out and see if
>> it
>> still works (it should).
>>
>> On a side note, I've found that aptitude instead of apt-get is better at
>> resolving dependencies, and it keeps the system cleaner, as it knows and
>> tracks what packages were installed purely as a dependency, and it kicks
>> them
>> out automatically again as soon as they're orphaned. It should be for most
>> purposes a drop in replacement for apt-get.
>>
>> Guy
>>
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