Re: [Visualpython-users] Linux clarification

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

Thanks for this additional information. The only tests I know of for the 
Linux installer have been on Red Hat (various versions), which definitely 
has all the other pieces already installed. It is helpful to know that 
these pieces are not necessarily present in the Debian context.

Bruce Sherwood

--On Monday, March 04, 2002 8:24 AM -0500 Andy Dougherty 
<dou...@la...> wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Joe Heafner wrote:
>
>> I need some clarification on the Linux version of VPython. Am I to
>> assume from the online information at vpython.org that the suppled
>> Python 2.2 and VPython packages contain *everything* needed to install
>> under Linux? All the supplementary libraries? I'm running RH7 (soon to
>> be upgraded I hope to 7.2).
>
> Short answer:  Maybe.  Other packages you may need are commonly, but not
> universally, installed on many Linux systems.  (I don't know RH7 well
> enough to say anything definitive about it.)  I can tell you that on my
> Debian system, I also needed to add glib, gtk+, and some sort of OpenGL
> library.  You may need to check that you have the development versions of
> the libraries.[1]
>
> VPython includes gtkglarea, but if you can't use the supplied i386 rpm[2]
> you may also need to install gtkglarea from source. If so, I'd recommend
> using the slightly-newer gtkglarea-1.2.3 -- it worked marginally better
> for me.
>
> Where you get OpenGL may depend, in part, on which X server you're using.
>  I'm currently trying Mesa as an OpenGL replacement, but with mixed
> success. The Visual window only seems to be updated occasionally; with the
> same program under Windows, the updating is nearly continuous.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
>     Andy Dougherty		dou...@la...
>     Dept. of Physics
>     Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
>
> [1] For some libraries, some Linux distributions sometimes ship both
> runtime and development versions.  You need the development version if you
> want to compile.
>
> [2] e.g. if you don't have an rpm command, or if if you're running on a
> different architecture, such as an Alpha or SPARC.
>
>
>
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