Re: [Visualpython-users] New installer under Debian

[Shaun P. <Sha...@an...>]

Bruce Sherwood wrote:

>Many thanks for the detailed feedback -- it's just the kind of data we need
>to improve the installer. One thing seems quite odd: You couldn't install
>gtkglarea, which is needed, yet you eventually managed to compile anyway. I
>wouldn't have thought that mesa would include the missing piece....
>
>Bruce Sherwood
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To make it clearer. I installed gtkglarea both using apt-get and also by 
downloading it as a seperate deb package and installing it using dpkg -i
The problem was the configure script was still claiming it hadn't beeen 
installed. But on investigation of the configure file I think that this 
error message may be misleading and instead was triggered by mesa not 
being installed. Installing the mesa packages enables the configure 
script to complete normally. This may indicate a problem in the 
configure script rather than packages really being missing.