[Visualpython-users] Re: question about Linux and VPython

[Ari H. <ahe...@an...>]

On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 02:42:53PM -0400, David Scherer wrote:
> I'm glad you like VPython.  Ari maintains the linux build, and is more
> likely to be able to answer your question correctly.
> 

Yeah. The best place to have sent this would have been the visualpython-users
list ...

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joe Heafner [mailto:hea...@tw...]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 12:01 PM
> > To: dsc...@us...
> > Subject: question about Linux and VPython
> >
> >
> > I'm currently running VPython on both WinME and Linux, and I have a
> > question about the rpm package from the VPython page. I retrieved it and
> > when I tried to install it, I got a dependency for libgtkgl.so.4. So I
> > installed this package (gtkglarea, or something like that), which
> > contained libgtkgl.so.5. The rpm still wants to see libgtkgl.so.5. Do

I haven't tried just linking them; I'm sure it would work if it was just
compiled against GtkGLArea5. You can try symlinking them. Or you can get the
source package, compile cvisualmodule.so (that's what will build in the
cvisual/ directory if you type 'make') and sticking that on top of the one
provided by the package (after doing a force-install).

I should produce some new packages that let you use gtkglarea5 (the current
version in Debian as well). I'll try to do that. I was hoping to finish up
my current feature (frame.color or whatever it is i'm doing) but i don't
know when i will -- i've been going crazy with IBM stuff as well.





ari