Re: [Visualpython-users] Installing Vpython

[Jonathan B. <jbr...@ea...>]

On Mon, 2003-05-12 at 15:37, ima...@gm... wrote:
> Thanks for your fast help, I think I got an idea now:
> Some of the libraries got installed into 
>  /usr/lib/python2.1/site-packages

Python 2.2 is required for the current release of Visual.  You will need
to install that version and its development libraries.
apt-get install python2.2-dev
Then, run configure like this:
PYTHON=/usr/bin/python2.2 ./configure [options]

> Visual-2002-07-22

This is an older version of visual.  Try the current one from the
website, it should print a date of 2003-04-16

> Xlib:  extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
> 
> Gtk-WARNING **: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to `GtkWidget'
> OpenGL initialization failed.
>   Unable to create OpenGL display widget
> Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x2b)!

Just to be sure, check the 'Module' section of your XF86Config-4.  Make
sure that 'dri' and 'GLcore' are NOT listed, and 'glx' IS.  This could
be an artifact of building against one set of GL libraries, and running
on another, but I'm not sure.

> Also ./configure ... gives 
> [snip]
> include  
> checking GTHREAD_LIBS...  -lgthread -lpthread -lglib  
> checking GL... no
> checking GL with threads... no
> checking Mesa... no
> checking Mesa with pthreads... no
> configure: error: gtkglarea is required on Unix-like systems

Half-way down config.log, you should see a much more verbose echo of
this output with detailed information regarding the failure.  Please
send me that information, and we can see exactly what failed.

> Seems that indeed some graphics library is missing or 
> in the wrong directory. 
> But 
> gtkglarea5-dev      1.2.3-1
> python-gtkglarea   0.6.9-3
> gtkglarea5             1.2.3-1
> are installed. 

python-gtkglarea isn't needed for this package.

> Maybe my OpenGl support is broken?
> xlibmesa-dev
> xlibmesa3
> are installed, and I'm a bit fixed here, since 
> the NVidia kernel drivers require these special 
> packages. 

Shouldn't be an issue.  I use those on my box here, with the nvidia
driver, too. (Debian sid.)  Did it on Woody before that.

-Jonathan Brandmeyer