Re: [Visualpython-users] Visual Python on Scientifc Linux?

[Paul C. <PC...@sp...>]

Thanks for the advice but this is not working for me and I don't have 
additional time to spend on it right now. I run into the following 
problems:

1. Can't apparently have gtkglextmm-devel. It is not in any of the 
Scientific Linux repositories, nor rpmforge nor atrpms. An rpm can be 
located on the web and downloaded, and the installation appears to 
complete but it doesn't actually do anything.
2. The earliest Fedora version I can locate is 15 for which there are a 
host of dependency failures. To wit:
3. Wants Python 2.7 and SL only goes up to 2.6. That I took care of.
4. Wants glibc 3.4.15 but glibc doesn't appear to exist in a version 
higher than 2.14
5. Wants the boost libraries which I installed yesterday. Or appeared to. 
Could have been like #1 above.
6. Wants gtkglextmm (not devel) but yum tells me that is already 
installed.

In short, it looks like a conflict between the dependency demands of 
visual python for fedora 15, some broken packages, and the long term 
stability needs of SL. Since this isn't a critical need at the moment,  I 
don't think I want to wade into this swamp unless someone has an idea I 
haven't thought of.



Dr. Paul J. Camp
Physics Department
Spelman College
Atlanta, GA   30314
404-270-5864

"The beauty of the cosmos derives not only from unity in variety
       but also from variety in unity"
                 -- Umberto Eco
                     The Name of the Rose



From:   "Frank W. Samuelson" <fr...@me...>
To:     Paul Camp <PC...@sp...>
Cc:     vis...@li...
Date:   09/10/2012 05:36 PM
Subject:        Re: [Visualpython-users] Visual Python on Scientifc Linux?



I have not done it, but here are some suggestions.

1. Install gtkglextmm-devel too, and the -devel package for 
any other dependency that you see, e.g. gtkglext-devel and 
libXmu-devel and libglademm24-devel.

2. If you want to avoid compiling altogether, try installing 
a python-visual rpm from a slightly older 
version of Fedora (like Fedora 11, 12 or 13).   Often older 
Fedora packages will install on CentOS/RHEL.

3. Build python-visual from a Fedora source rpm.
rpmbuild --rebuild python-visual-etc-f12-src.rpm
This will require all the dependencies that are in (1), but 
you'll have a nice package for installation.


On Mon, 10 Sep 2012, Paul Camp wrote:

> Or any other Red Hat derived linux, like CentOS, would probably help.
>
> I can't find a package or I'd go that route. Building from source 
produces
> an error during configure that I need gtkglextmm 1.2. I downloaded that
> and successfully (apparently -- no error messages) made it. But then
> trying to configure VPython produces the same error. I also found an rpm
> for gtkglextmm, installed it (again apparently successfully) and Vpython
> still won't configure.
>
> I am now officially at my wits end. Has anyone else managed to do this?
>
>
> Dr. Paul J. Camp
> Physics Department
> Spelman College
> Atlanta, GA   30314
> 404-270-5864
>
> "The beauty of the cosmos derives not only from unity in variety
>       but also from variety in unity"
>                 -- Umberto Eco
>                     The Name of the Rose

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