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

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

On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 23:09, Ole...@ga... wrote:

> 
> 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

You can find the detailed version of the error about half-way down
config.log (generated in the directory that you are configuring).  But I
think that I will cover your problem below.

> but I have xlibmesa3=4.2.0=0prev1v3 and gtkglarea5=1.2.3-1 installed.
> Can anyone help me out here?

The one thing that is probably missing is a GL -dev library.  If you are
using nvidia-supplied drivers, you will need to install the
nvidia-glx-dev package that is provided when you built the kernel
drivers (on my system, nvidia-glx-dev_1.0.4349-1_i386.deb).  If you are
using a Mesa-supported graphics card than you will need the
xlibmesa3-dev package from the usual Debian sources.

HTH,
-Jonathan

P.S.  Dr. Sherwood, do you think you could summarize that last paragraph
for the Debian-specific portion of the installation instructions?  This
question seems to come up a lot.