[Visualpython-users] Ubuntu 7.10

[Bruce S. <Bru...@nc...>]

I upgraded to Ubuntu 7.10. I was shown a sizable list of "obsolete" 
files that would be deleted, including various boost 1.33 and 1.34 
files, which I accepted, although these are needed by Visual. After the 
upgrade I tried running VPython and got an error message that a boost 
file was missing, which wasn't surprising. I went to the package 
manager, found "python-visual", and successfully installed it. However, 
it's pretty old: 3.1.1; the current production version is 3.2.9. I don't 
know who builds Ubuntu packages, or how they decide what version of an 
application to package.

I tried building Visual 3.2.9 (the production version for Linux 
available at vpython.org) but in the configure phase was told there was 
a problem with pkg-config for gtk+; the error message is "sh: 
gtk-config: not found", which I don't understand.

Bruce Sherwood