[Visualpython-users] Red Hat Linux

[Bruce S. <ba...@an...>]

We have received a number of reports from people who have not been able to
get Visual to run on Red Hat or Suse Linux. Typical reports are appended.
If you have successfully gotten Visual to run on these flavors of Linux,
please give us details on what you did. Thanks. (It appears that these
problems do not show up on Debian or Mandrake Linux.)

Bruce Sherwood

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> I'm trying to use vpython, but every time I type 
> from visual import *
> I get this:
> 
> Visual-2000-09-01
> Traceback (innermost last):
>   File "<pyshell#0>", line 1, in ?
>     from visual import *
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.0/site-packages/visual/__init__.py", line
> 16, in ?
>     import cvisual
> ImportError: libgtkgl.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file
> or directory
> 
> I found libgtkgl.so.4 and have put it in several directories, but
> vpython still can't seem to find it.  I'm using Python 2.0.
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> When trying to install the rpm package, I got a dependency error:
> 
> [root@poincare tmp]# rpm -i python-visual-2000.06.10-4.i386.rpm 
> error: failed dependencies:
>         libgtkgl.so.4 is needed by python-visual-2000.06.10-4
>         libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 is needed by
> python-visual-2000.06.10-4
> 
> My guess that I have a Redhat version mismatch.  I'm using RH6.2; do
> you know what version is needed for your distribution?
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> On downloading the rpm version for Linux, and attempting to
> install it on the machine, running Suse Linux 6.4, the error msg asked
> for libGLU.so.1,libgtkgl.so.1,libgtkgl.so.4 and libstdC+lib6.1-2.so.3.
> Please let me know how to get these files.