[Visualpython-users] VPython on Ubuntu 7.10

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

I reported a problem in trying to install Visual 3.2.9 on Ubuntu 7.10. 
David Sanders pointed out to me that when I got the message referring to 
"gtk-config" I should have run that program, which would have told me I 
needed to install libgtk-dev. I was then able to build 3.2.9.

As for building the beta version on Ubuntu 7.10, a couple of people 
reported a problem with not finding numpy. My best guess is that there 
were installations of Python 2.5 in both /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin, 
which apparently can confuse the configure process. It's important to 
follow these instructions from INSTALL.txt:

On Linux, do this: which python
Make a note of the prefix preceding /bin/python, typically /usr or 
/usr/local.
	
(a) If prefix is /usr/local, execute ../visual-x.x.x/configure

(b) If prefix is something else, and Visual can go into 
prefix/lib/python/site-packages, execute
../visual-x.x.x/configure --prefix=prefix

(c) If you want to use a different version of Python than the one found 
with "which python", or (b) is not appropriate, specify both the 
particular Python and where to install Visual:
PYTHON=/somewhere1/bin/python ../visual-x.x.x/configure --prefix=/somewhere2

If "somewhere1" and "somewhere2" are different, you must also add the 
"somewhere2" directory to Python's module search path. For details, at 
www.python.org read section 4.1 (Modifying Python's Search Path) in the 
section Installing Python Modules of the Python on-line documentation.

Bruce Sherwood