Re: [Visualpython-users] Building vpython 5.4 in Ubuntu 10.10

[Patrick S. <pat...@gm...>]

Thanks for your reply!  Unfortunately, for me running sudo make install
just copies the cvisualmodule.so file
to ../visual-5.4_release/site-packages/visual/cvisualmodule.so.  Here's
what I did in detail:

1. Make a directory on the same level as the source directory, and copy
visual-5.4_release/src/gtk2/makefile into it. (I also had to edit a
couple of things in the makefile: I changed the name of the source
directory to visual-5.4_release from vpython-core2, and changed the
-lboost_python-mt flags to -lboost_python-mt-py26, since that's how the
libraries are named in Ubuntu)

2. I ran configure from the newly created directory with the makefile in
it, with the --prefix=/usr argument.

3. Ran make from the same directory

4.  Then when I run sudo make install, it just says 
cp cvisualmodule.so ../visual-5.4_release/site-packages/visual,
and nothing gets copied into /usr/lib/python2.6

Thanks for your help,
Patrick

On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 23:29 -0700, Bruce Sherwood wrote:
> You need to execute "sudo make install" to move the various components
> into the right places. For cleanliness, it would be a good idea first
> to remove the Visual stuff from site-packages.
> 
> Also, because site-packages is no longer (alas) on the Ubuntu Python
> module search path, you need to follow these instructions in
> INSTALL.txt:
> 
>        You will also need to copy vpython-core2/src/gtk2/site-packages.pth to
>        /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages to put /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages
>        on the Python search path.
> 
> You will have to adjust the contents of site-packages.pth text file if
> you are installing to /usr/lib rather than /usr/local.
> 
> Hope this helps!
> 
> Bruce Sherwood
> 
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Patrick Shea
> <pat...@gm...> wrote:
> > I tried building visual python 5.4 following the directions in the
> > INSTALL.txt file.  I made a directory at the same level as the
> > "visual-5.4_release" source directory and ran configure and make.
> > Everything seems to work fine, and the cvisualmodule.so file is
> > generated.
> >
> > The only thing I'm confused about is that running "make install" just
> > copies the cvisualmodule.so file back into the visual-5.4_release
> > directory.  I'm just not sure which files I am supposed to move where to
> > be able to use vpython.  I tried just copying the whole
> > "visual-5.5_release/site-packages" directory into
> > "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages" (making sure it was in python's
> > search path), but I'm not able to load visual.  Doing "import visual"
> > gives the error:
> >
> > ImportError: cannot import name cvisual
> >
> > cvisualmodule.so is in the /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/visual
> > directory, but it apparently can't be imported.  If anyone can help me
> > figure out what's wrong I'd greatly appreciate it.  Thanks.
> >
> >
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