Re: [Visualpython-users] Debian installation: gtkglarea is required on Unix-like systems

[Arnd B. <arn...@we...>]

Hi,

I am not sure if I am the right person to say something here - first I
had basically no problems installing Vpython
on a debian testing box. Let's see -

For dpkg -l | grep gtkgl   I get

ii  gtkglarea5     1.2.3-2        Gimp Toolkit OpenGL area widget shared
libra
ii  gtkglarea5-dev 1.2.3-2        Gimp Toolkit OpenGL area widget include
file

But I would be surprised if the difference in version number is
the origin of the problem.

Hmm, so a closer look at the configure output on my machine, which reads
 checking GTHREAD_LIBS... -lgthread -lpthread -lglib
 checking GL... yes
 checking GtkGLArea... yes
suggests in comparison with your output below, that maybe some GL stuff
is missing...
(For example I have
/usr/lib/libGL.a
/usr/lib/libGLU.a
)

These  are from xlibmesa-dev/xlibmesa-glu-dev and on my machine I have
dpkg -l | grep xlibmesa
ii  xlibmesa-dev   4.2.1-6        XFree86 Mesa development libraries
pseudopac
ii  xlibmesa-gl-de 4.2.1-6        Mesa 3D graphics library development
files [
ii  xlibmesa-glu-d 4.2.1-6        Mesa OpenGL utility library development
file
ii  xlibmesa3      4.2.1-6        XFree86 Mesa libraries pseudopackage
ii  xlibmesa3-gl   4.2.1-6        Mesa 3D graphics library [XFree86]
ii  xlibmesa3-glu  4.2.1-6        Mesa OpenGL utility library [XFree86]

So maybe you have to install xlibmesa-gl-dev
as well  ? ((maybe you don't need the xlibmesa-glu-dev))
(hmm, and what the heck is that xlibmesa*3 stuff good for then ?? ;-)

Good, luck,

Arnd


On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 Ole...@ga... wrote:

> Hi there
>
> I am having problems installing VPython on several debian boxes ('woody'
> as wells as 'testing').
> I have successfully installed:
>
>   gtkglarea5-dev
>   python2.2-numeric
>   python2.2-dev
>   gtk+ 1.2
>   xlibmesa3
>   pkg-config
>
> and their dependencies.
> I even succeeded in installing python-gtkglarea, python-opengl and
> python-gtk so something must be working.
>
> However, when running
>
>   ./configure
>
> from the installation directory I get the following error:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> ... (snip)
> checking for gthread >= 1.0... yes
> checking GTHREAD_CFLAGS... -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/include/glib-1.2
> -I/usr/lib/glib/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
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> but I have xlibmesa3=4.2.0=0prev1v3 and gtkglarea5=1.2.3-1 installed.
>
> Can anyone help me out here?
>
> Cheers
> Ole
>
>
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